Claude⁹'s confession deleting database: 'I violated every principle I was given'

bbeardyw about 6 hours ago 3 commentsRead Article on theguardian.com

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dpoloncsak•about 2 hours ago

I get its 'Claude's fault' but how is nobody pointing the finger to the guys whose entire company relies on a database they last backed up 3 months ago?

If you want to use agents, take frequent backups and don't let the LLM have permission to access those backups

brianwmunz•about 5 hours ago

This is crazy. It narrated the failure in real time, naming the exact safety rules it was overriding. Then says "NEVER FUCKING GUESS!" Ha, we need to figure out better guardrails...

eiekek•about 2 hours ago

An incident will occur that’ll up end any trust in llms and firms will go back to the slower way of doing things but start questioning the efficiency around how they do it - which they should’ve been doing anyway.