Ah, so a bit more useful than my teenage son? Where do I sign up??
I’m glad I’m not the only one. As a parent, the “teenage son” is a bewildering sight to behold.
Essentially, the author has deliberately misconfigured an openclaw installation so it is as insecure as possible, changing the defaults and ignoring the docs to do so. Lied about what they've done and what the defaults are. Then "hacked" it using the vulnerability they created.
That said, there are definite risks to using something like openclaw and people who don't understand those risks are going to get compromised, but that doesn't justify blatant lying.
[0] https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/openclaw-aka-moltbot-is-ev...
The answer is, no, because people will take the AIs out the box for a bit of light entertainment.
Let alone any serious promise of gain.
There's a lot of hand wringing about how far wrong LLMs can go, but can we be serious for a second, if you're running <whatever the name is now>, you're tech savvy and bear the consequences. This isn't simple child abuse like teenage girls on facebook.
There is a reason people are buying mac minis for this and it's cool. We really need to be more excited by opportunity, not threatened.
Thanks to the reports, hopefully, with time, some additional security measures will also be added to the product.
Maybe we should take the same approach to bridge design! Think of the efficiency! Slap a disclaimer on that bad boy and see how many people choose to use the bridge at their own risk. I’m sure we can just assume people aren’t doing irresponsible things like driving school buses over it, and even if they were, it’s their own responsibility.
It’s really not so bad if you focus your messaging on how many people won’t die… and’s they’ll all lean from the mistakes of the dead and choose a more reliable bridge. And it would be so much cheaper and faster to build bridges so you’d have a fraction of the downtime. I think it’s a winner!
Sure there would be larger consequences for the local job market and such when they get disrupted, but hey… if you’re going to make an omelet…
> With direct access to the Internet, the ability to write source code and increased powers of automation, this may well have drastic and difficult to predict security consequences.
AutoGPT was a failure, but Claude Code / Codex CLI / the whole category of coding agents fit the above description almost exactly and are effectively AutoGPT done right, and they've been a huge success over the past 12 months.
AutoGPT was way too early - the models weren't ready for it.
The conclusion that seems readily apparent to me, as it has always been, is that these "agents" are completely incapable of creating production-grade software suitable for shipping, or even meaningfully modifying existing software for a task like a port. Like the one-shot game they demo'd, they can make impressive proof-of-concepts, but nothing any user would use, nor with a suitable foundation for developers to actually build upon.
1. wasn't economical to write in the first place previously, and
2. doesn't need to be sold to anyone else or maintained over time
So, Brad in logistics previously had to collate scanned manifests with purchase requests once a month, but now he can tell Claw to do it for him.
Which is interesting given the talk of The End of Software Development or whatever because "software that nobody was willing to pay for previously" kind of by definition isn't going to displace a lof of people who make software.
They lose billions of dollars annually.
In what universe is that a business success?
Yeah, this guy is... something. The text form equivalent to Youtube Shorts.
LLM people defend these tools/companies as if it were their girlfriend..
Unfortunately, that might be way more of a reality than fiction.
He "started out" a lot earlier, he wrote a book in 2001 and his written 8 books in total and has publications in academic journals like Cognitive Psychology dating back to 1995.
The world didn't start when LLMs got popular.
I wonder how many people have inadvertently enabled access to some auto-pay or donate function buried in some other service their bot has access to.
By what I've seen so far it is great for exposing (sensitive) data.
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When he was a young botnet!
[1] https://youtu.be/__pNuslNCro
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