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[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

I think now is a good time to get into malware AI plugins.

[–] arcine@jlai.lu 14 points 18 hours ago

"Notorious fool joins band of other notorious fools"

[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You know I was just thinking that what OpenAI needs to really succeed is someone who knows how to haphazardly throw together a wildly irresponsible, insecure, and unsafe tool that gets really popular really quickly.

[–] Pulsar@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

I believe seat belts were invented in the sixties and mandatory some time in the eighties. Unfortunately safety lags innovation.

[–] Hippy@piefed.social 11 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Most people have bad taste. Most developers are not able to discern quality from bullshit. You see it every day. People enslaved by the news, by religion, by politics. OpenClaw is a fad like most of the other garbage out there. It uses 1000x the tokens of a normal AI user so obviously the AI wholesalers are paying attention. They want AI adoption and to maximize token usage. Remember the crypto bros punting web 3.0 as the world changing idea of the century? Well now it's easy to see that was garbage and it will be easy to see this paradigm of giving an insecure system access to all your shit is a bad idea in the near future.

[–] kalpol@lemmy.ca 4 points 18 hours ago

Just an extra data point, you can self host the model too. Clawdbot or moltbot or whatever can use Ollama. Not that this helps with the garbage, but at least it won't cost you.

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Founder? Didn’t some person just vibe code some ai silliness?

OpenClaw viber?

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And isn’t this not a unique idea? Surely OpenAI had something in the works already.

[–] darkevilmac@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

OpenAI is reaching the point where they're big enough that things move slowly. They might have been working on something like this but it was obviously not done because they were thinking about security implications.

The ClawdBot guy did not care about security implications and just shipped a terrifying piece of software because he could

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Break fast and move things!

[–] inari@piefed.zip 26 points 1 day ago

No bad deed goes unrewarded

[–] schwim@piefed.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In the end, they all sell out.

[–] shiftymccool@piefed.ca 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

That's the entire business model with AI. There's no actual money to be made except to advertise fake value and sell to one of the big boys

[–] YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Wasn’t that the dot-com bubble, too, though? “Get bought by Google” was the plan for so many companies, they had no plans for profitability.

That's really too bad, he sounded kind of cool.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I love how half the replies are just people malding because the 4o model is no longer available for them to run their AI girlfriend on