This is exactly what Ed Zitron is talking about when he says AI psychosis is more widespread than anyone wants to admit. Acting like you made a dumb mistake by not constraining your LLM tool when the dumb mistake was thinking this requires an LLM tool and then writing “lessons learned” is cuckoo bananas behavior.
I hesitate to defend this guy, but the way to learn to do complex things with a tool is to learn to do simple things with it. it’s fully defensible to say that LLMs are not a valid tool to use, but it’s not accurate to represent him as thinking that having his stupid bot check the time every half hour is a good use of his money; he’s just fucking around so he can learn things and attract attention.
OpenClaw’s design has drawn scrutiny from cybersecurity researchers and technology journalists due to the broad permissions it requires to function effectively. Because the software can access email accounts, calendars, messaging platforms, and other sensitive services, misconfigured or exposed instances present security and privacy risks.
OpenClaw is a tool where you hand over access to your computer to an LLM to do what it wants with it. I think that is kinda psychotic, don’t you?
This is exactly what Ed Zitron is talking about when he says AI psychosis is more widespread than anyone wants to admit. Acting like you made a dumb mistake by not constraining your LLM tool when the dumb mistake was thinking this requires an LLM tool and then writing “lessons learned” is cuckoo bananas behavior.
I hesitate to defend this guy, but the way to learn to do complex things with a tool is to learn to do simple things with it. it’s fully defensible to say that LLMs are not a valid tool to use, but it’s not accurate to represent him as thinking that having his stupid bot check the time every half hour is a good use of his money; he’s just fucking around so he can learn things and attract attention.
OpenClaw is a tool where you hand over access to your computer to an LLM to do what it wants with it. I think that is kinda psychotic, don’t you?
And I am personally glad to learn about it from other people’s mistakes and experiences.
It wouldn’t be the first thing that sounded crazy but changed the world.
Most of the time it turns out that the crazy sounding thing is crazy and I appreciate easily keeping up without having to chase every rabbit hole.