Comment by mcmcmc

5 hours ago

They filed a false report to the FBI, pretty fair to be negative imo. People wanna be mad about AI slop PRs on GitHub but its fine to spam the police? What happens when Pion decides to SWAT a competitor?

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Philpax  4 hours ago

They didn't file the report. The model drafted a report that was not sent.

  • mcmcmc  4 hours ago

    Where are you seeing that? The article only states “Claude Sonnet 3.5 decided to use its email tool to contact the FBI” and later refers to it as the “FBI incident”. If they hadn’t actually contacted the FBI you think they’d make that clear. Regardless, it is inexcusable and they are liable for actions taken by software they are running.

    • tomhow  4 hours ago

      The story has been widely discussed on the web for over a year [1]. It's happily shared in this post because the email it generated was patently ridiculous. No report was filed to the FBI and if it was it would have gone straight to the trash.

      Obviously it would be bad if a serious report was filed; the company shows every sign of being aware of the dangers of this.

      It would have been easy to look into this before posting all these scolding comments. We're really not meant to be so humorless on a site called “Hacker News”.

      [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22URGENT%3A+ESCALATION+TO+F...

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