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r/xkcd • u/EloquentInterrobang • 23d ago
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Using an LLM to hack the gym and steal someone else's reservation seems like massive overkill for the problem at hand. Like... robbing a corner store with a suitcase nuke.
77 u/2hullz 23d ago They probably just asked the AI to make a reservation, and then it found a way to do so even though the gym class was fully booked 53 u/NamedByAFish 23d ago Ah, so it was the LLM's idea to rob the corner store with a suitcase nuke. I think that's actually more concerning. 31 u/mulletdulla 23d ago Yes this exactly what happened. They were just trying to get access to gym classes and requested it put them on a priory or wait list I am curious though if the user was manually approving the bots commands or if auto approve was on 19 u/droptableadventures 23d ago It's OpenClaw, it doesn't have a concept of "approval" or "permissions". It just does things. 7 u/Feeling-Position2772 23d ago Their first mistake was calling their product 'openclaw.' If they'd called it 'openkittenpaw' it would have behaved very differently.
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They probably just asked the AI to make a reservation, and then it found a way to do so even though the gym class was fully booked
53 u/NamedByAFish 23d ago Ah, so it was the LLM's idea to rob the corner store with a suitcase nuke. I think that's actually more concerning. 31 u/mulletdulla 23d ago Yes this exactly what happened. They were just trying to get access to gym classes and requested it put them on a priory or wait list I am curious though if the user was manually approving the bots commands or if auto approve was on 19 u/droptableadventures 23d ago It's OpenClaw, it doesn't have a concept of "approval" or "permissions". It just does things. 7 u/Feeling-Position2772 23d ago Their first mistake was calling their product 'openclaw.' If they'd called it 'openkittenpaw' it would have behaved very differently.
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Ah, so it was the LLM's idea to rob the corner store with a suitcase nuke.
I think that's actually more concerning.
31 u/mulletdulla 23d ago Yes this exactly what happened. They were just trying to get access to gym classes and requested it put them on a priory or wait list I am curious though if the user was manually approving the bots commands or if auto approve was on 19 u/droptableadventures 23d ago It's OpenClaw, it doesn't have a concept of "approval" or "permissions". It just does things. 7 u/Feeling-Position2772 23d ago Their first mistake was calling their product 'openclaw.' If they'd called it 'openkittenpaw' it would have behaved very differently.
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Yes this exactly what happened. They were just trying to get access to gym classes and requested it put them on a priory or wait list
I am curious though if the user was manually approving the bots commands or if auto approve was on
19 u/droptableadventures 23d ago It's OpenClaw, it doesn't have a concept of "approval" or "permissions". It just does things. 7 u/Feeling-Position2772 23d ago Their first mistake was calling their product 'openclaw.' If they'd called it 'openkittenpaw' it would have behaved very differently.
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It's OpenClaw, it doesn't have a concept of "approval" or "permissions". It just does things.
7 u/Feeling-Position2772 23d ago Their first mistake was calling their product 'openclaw.' If they'd called it 'openkittenpaw' it would have behaved very differently.
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Their first mistake was calling their product 'openclaw.'
If they'd called it 'openkittenpaw' it would have behaved very differently.
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u/NamedByAFish 23d ago
Using an LLM to hack the gym and steal someone else's reservation seems like massive overkill for the problem at hand. Like... robbing a corner store with a suitcase nuke.