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

[gbargoud@masto.nyc]

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/116207648749663738

@davidrevoy

I'm sure you have a massive pile of Avian Intelligence story ideas from everything happening but here's one that would fit in very well:

[davidrevoy@framapiaf.org]

@gbargoud Thank you for sharing!

[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.)