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  • When AI produces something it's you that built it, but when AI goes rogue and deletes your inbox it was acting on its own. That's gonna end well.
    by pluc
  • The publication date of this article directly aligns with OpenClaw peak interest.

    https://trends.google.com/explore?q=%2Fg%2F11m_5rcbl8&date=t...

    by jgalt212
  • This actually seems worse then the "claude dropped production database" not in severity but just carelessness if your giving an agent your emails use a overlay or back up or something not matter what, no reason for this to have happened and crazy that it's happening at this point in time.
    by kodoman
  • From a cursory search, this woman looks credentialed and worked at many FAANGs. How can someone with that pedigree not understand a prompt isn't 100% followed to the letter?

    Maybe the emails weren't worth it? I have little to bother if most of my emails go away, especially if I am switching companies every few years anyway.

    by wannabe44
  • Oh that's going to be the excuse by anybody under investigation from now on. From 'the hacker did it' we will smoothly transition to 'the AI did it'.
    by jacquesm
  • Irony: the screenshot with the openclaw logo at the top lists as the first feature "Clears your inbox".

    What happened to write-only backups in case of ransomware?

    by red_admiral
  • Not the first to discover that a rule file saying "please don't do X" is not permission management. Funny that she mentions it worked on het toy inbox but the real, large inbox ran into issues; The more context you add the less weight "rules" (instructions) have. Happens to the best it seems.
    by philipp-gayret
  • We went through this right? This happened at the beginning of the year (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47150122, probably more links on HN). It's a super careless thing to take such tech and just release it on anything important, and she's a "security researcher" no less.

    This is just a competitor with an agenda (pro regulation) trying to scare people away from unregulated stuff.

    Yesterday Claude Code made 5 large edits to my codebase in planning mode (claims it used a bash script instead of standard read/write tools so the guardrails didn't trigger) it's why I put agents in containers.

    by teekert

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