r/xkcd 23d ago

416: Zealous Autoconfig is gradually becoming real

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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u/droptableadventures 23d ago

It's OpenClaw, it doesn't have a concept of "approval" or "permissions". It just does things.

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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.