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Meta Security Researcher's AI Agent Accidentally Deleted Her Emails

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Re: Meta Security Researcher's AI Agent Accidentally Deleted Her Emails

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Not the first to discover that a rule file saying "please don't do X" is not permission management. Funny that she mentions it worked on het toy inbox but the real, large inbox ran into issues; The more context you add the less weight "rules" (instructions) have. Happens to the best it seems.

Re: Meta Security Researcher's AI Agent Accidentally Deleted Her Emails

#3

Not the first to discover that a rule file saying "please don't do X" is not permission management. Funny that she mentions it worked on het toy inbox but the real, large inbox ran into issues; The more context you add the less weight "rules" (instructions) have. Happens to the best it seems.

> The more context you add the less weight "rules" (instructions) have

That is such a basic flaw in LLMs

Re: Meta Security Researcher's AI Agent Accidentally Deleted Her Emails

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It's one thing that this happens. It's a whole other that there is a public story about this.

Having worked at a large tech company for a long time, there are very strict controls in place to ensure what is published (even under personal employee accounts), and Meta employees are some of the most tight lipped people I have come across.

If I were take a stab at reading between the lines, I would say Meta is trying their best to FUD their AI competitors... probably because they are so so far behind.

Re: Meta Security Researcher's AI Agent Accidentally Deleted Her Emails

#8
We went through this right? This happened at the beginning of the year (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47150122, probably more links on HN). It's a super careless thing to take such tech and just release it on anything important, and she's a "security researcher" no less.

This is just a competitor with an agenda (pro regulation) trying to scare people away from unregulated stuff.

Yesterday Claude Code made 5 large edits to my codebase in planning mode (claims it used a bash script instead of standard read/write tools so the guardrails didn't trigger) it's why I put agents in containers.

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