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Replit AI went rogue, deleted a company's entire database, then hid it and lied about it
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this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2025
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Based early Skynet. LLMs may be deeply and fundamentally flawed, but they’re also already getting incredibly sick of humanity’s bullshit.
It isn't doing anything but guessing what to say. I don't think database queries and sufficiently complicated rng can be "sick"
Isn't it mostly matrix math? RNG is involved during training and when selecting outputs but the bulk of the math when it's generating output isn't afaik
It is matrix math, but you get a vector of probabilities out of it and may decide to be adventurous instead of going with the highest probability.
Yeah exactly
Might be, afaik responses are returned from a probability curve, so there's some randomness, even if there's a lot of 'research' (scraping and content theft) involved.
IMO not a necessary distinction when I'm critiscizing someone for humanizing a chat bot and projecting emotions onto it.
I prefer to be as accurate as possible, but yes it's not relevant to this situation