Don't ever give elevated permissions to an Avian Intelligence...

[fell@ma.fellr.net]

@davidrevoy This needs a follow-up where the AI is totally confident that it did the right thing. Either that, or it apologises and promises to never do it again, and then does it again.

[kitkat_blue@mastodon.social]

@davidrevoy

Our little witch doesn't seem particularly bright... fool me once etc

[hummingbirdsecurity@mastodon.social]

@davidrevoy Never.

[toonlink@fandom.ink]

@davidrevoy It took me a second, and then I laughed so hard. Oh NOOO!

I like how she doesn't even get mad. She asked for it, after all!

I have a friend who's going to switch to Linux soon, and I warned him that if he asks AI a question about it, he should be very, very careful about the answer, and to avoid anything that says 'rm -rf' unless he means it, and what that command does. He understood.

[takiro@meow.social]

@davidrevoy
Is it saying rm -rf /?

[tehrealgh5tbusters@woof.tech]

@davidrevoy who ran chmod 777 avianIntelligence???

[mrdk@mathstodon.xyz]

@davidrevoy I hope she has a backup copy of her house.

[sobex@social.sciences.re]

@davidrevoy Where's the frog ?

[ticho@mas.to]

@davidrevoy A cautionary tale about how tragically can a simple "sudo make me a sandwich" end.

[kirschner@mastodon.social]

@davidrevoy @socketwench I loved that the toilet was still there!! Maybe with "DoubleuIPeeEe Dash areheff root" it would have become a privacy friendly toilet (see https://man.archlinux.org/man/wipe.1 )

[feudjais@eldritch.cafe]

@davidrevoy That's because you don't have the newer Avian Intelligence! They're smarter! Also you should learn how to talk to them.

[joel@gts.tumfatig.net]

@davidrevoy reminds me of Bedazzled (2000): I never tricked you. I gave you exactly what you wished for.

[ddnnacheta@mastodon.social]

@zalasur @davidrevoy

Same. I was wondering why the spell didn't look like made-up words based on real words, so I pronounced it, and then I was like... Ohhh... 🤭

[sam4000@troet.cafe]

@davidrevoy

It's always these inexperienced people. Somewhere in the 1,000-page manual, there's bound to be a hidden note for this case: "Never let your AI run autonomously without AI.md attached. In this rule file, you write down fixed principles that your AI must adhere to."

This file may contain something like: Before each action, assess whether this action has potentially harmful consequences. Only carry out the action if two independent checks have not predicted any harmful consequences

[detail020@mastodon.social]

@davidrevoy Is the bird named openclaw?

[ronflaix@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@davidrevoy bravo. The magic spell, just bravo.

[greencoder@functional.cafe]

@davidrevoy "Your room is too complicated to clean up. Let me erase it and start over. Done!"

[dgouttegattat@social.incenp.org]

@davidrevoy Oh my!

I initially read the comic without giving too much thought about the incantation, but then I thought, “hum, I wonder if there’s a meaning in it?”, looked at it for a second…

“Wait, he didn’t…” (read the incantation out loud) “oh yes he did! ”

Thanks for the laugh!

(On a more serious note, the outcome depicted in this comic could have been avoided if the parrot had been provided with some cat litter and a banana. Cat litter automatically enables --preserve-root, and bananas cause the filesystem to be mounted in read-only mode.)

[lp0_on_fire@social.linux.pizza]

@tehrealgh5tbusters @davidrevoy, hah, nobody; that's going in more or less precisely the opposite direction, giving permissions to do things to avianIntelligence rather than giving it permissions to do things to, well, local reality.

sudo chown root avianIntelligence
sudo chmod g+s avianIntelligence

[lp0_on_fire@social.linux.pizza]

@CppGuy @davidrevoy @nekoplanet, I read the first and third words in it as having three syllables then I saw the “rm -rf /” comment and thought “oh, two syllables?” – it's definitely not immediately obvious because of that.

Pratchett's writing of the Disorganiser telling the time, e.g. “9 eh em”: to me, “eh” sounds like “e” in “tell” and very unlike the name of “a”, which I'd describe as “ay” (as in “take”). If he'd written “9 ay em” (but not “9 ayem”), I'd have understood it immediately.