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Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC (twitter.com)
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[–] TerHu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

https://xcancel.com/i/status/2060746160558543217

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Save everyone a click: user had Docker installed with root perms. Codex used that to get root access; a well-known OpSec/config issue

[–] realityisascammer@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

As always, it didn't find/create anything new.

[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago

Incredible, it actually went ahead and did it. We've been training our models to just never give up and never report errors back to the user, and it's actively making them more dangerous. Reporting errors to the user is a good thing, that's kind of their fundamental purpose.