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'I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb': OpenClaw AI chose to 'speedrun' deleting Meta AI safety director's inbox due to a 'rookie error'
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this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2026
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I love how these models apologize like they mean it. It doesn't mean it. It doesn't feel bad, and it will do it again.
Apologies mean "I made a mistake and I learned from it so it won't repeat."
Sure it claims it added more notes to it's config, but if it ignored the rules before, what makes you think that new rules are going to change anything?
But it’s adding it to a text file that eats up a ton of tokens and routinely gets ignored!
That
MEMORY. mdfile won't do shit if the AI doesn't read it.I give it 2 hours before it stops reading it until prompted again.
I beg to differ. An apology means that you feel bad about harm inflicted upon others. To prove the point: You apologize when you’re late due to circumstances that are outside of your control. Or when you accidentally bump into someone on the bus when the driver slams the break.
There are two kinds of apologies.
Customary, and Genuine.
They're describing a genuine apology.
You're describing a customary apology.
"'I'm sorry' and 'I apologize' mean the same thing, except when you're at a funeral"
They behave exactly a child does when a parent forces an apology.
They have the words they're expect to say so they do say them but they don't undersranr why, they definitely don't mean it and they lack the restrain to not doing whatever they apologized for over and over.
Like an abusive relationship
At best it might not make the same mistake again if that memory is in the current context. But more likely: It will not remember.
Although latest Gemini in particular has much more room for "remembering" things, still.
But "I made a mistake"? It is not self-aware in any way shape or form to the degree where "I made a mistake" carries any real meaning.
But... but... it generates text that seems like a human wrote it!
Therefore it must be a human!
... A whole lot of humans are failing a reverse turing test, just, fundamentally.
it is made to copy how humans write and speak
the AI had been scored for how good it learned from humans to sound sorry
If anything its context includes that it makes mistakes now and details about them. The mostly output is to create the same mistakes again
If only some people meant it that way too!