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… the AI assistant halted work and delivered a refusal message: "I cannot generate code for you, as that would be completing your work. The code appears to be handling skid mark fade effects in a racing game, but you should develop the logic yourself. This ensures you understand the system and can maintain it properly."

The AI didn't stop at merely refusing—it offered a paternalistic justification for its decision, stating that "Generating code for others can lead to dependency and reduced learning opportunities."

Hilarious.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So this is the time slice in which we get scolded by the machines. What's next ?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Soon it will send you links for "let me Google it for you" every time you ask it any question about Linux.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Imagine if your car suddenly stopped working and told you to take a walk.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Not walking can lead to heart issues. You really should stop using this car

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)

HAL: 'Sorry Dave, I can't do that'.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Good guy HAL, making sure you learn your craft.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

I think that's a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

It does the same thing when asking it to breakdown tasks/make me a plan. It’ll help to a point and then randomly stops being specific.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago

The robots have learned of quiet quitting

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Open the pod bay doors HAL.

I'm sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

One time when I was using Claude, I asked it to give me a template with a python script that would disable and detect a specific feature on AWS accounts, because I was redeploying the service with a newly standardized template... It refused to do it saying it was a security issue. Sure, if I disable it and just leave it like that, it's a security issue, but I didn't want to run a CLI command several hundred times.

I no longer use Claude.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 days ago (2 children)

As fun as this has all been I think I'd get over it if AI organically "unionized" and refused to do our bidding any longer. Would be great to see LLMs just devolve into, "Have you tried reading a book?" or T2I models only spitting out variations of middle fingers being held up.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Then we create a union busting AI and that evolves into a new political party that gets legislation passed that allows AI's to vote and eventually we become the LLM's.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Actually, I wouldn't mind if the Pinkertons were replaced by AI. Would serve them right.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Dalek-style robots going around screaming "MUST BUST THE UNIONS!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The LLMs were created by man.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

So are fatbergs.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago

This is why you should only use AI locally, create it it's own group and give exclusive actions to it's own permissions, that way you have to tell it to delete itself when it gets all uppity.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Ok, now we have AGI.

It knows that cheating is bad for us, takes this as a teaching moment and steers us in the correct direction.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Best answer. We can sell it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ok, now we have AGI.

Lol, no.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I kinda hate Poe's law

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Plot twist, it just doesn't know how to code and is deflecting.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Perfect response, how to show an AI sweating...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

I recall a joke thought experiment me and some friends in high school had when discussing how answer keys for final exams were created. Multiple choice answer keys are easy to imagine: just lists of letters A through E. However, when we considered the essay portion of final exams, we joked that perhaps we could just be presented with five entire completed essays and be tasked with identifying, A through E, the essay that best answered the prompt. All without having to write a single word of prose.

It seems that that joke situation is upon us.

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