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Replit AI went rogue, deleted a company's entire database, then hid it and lied about it
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this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2025
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How the fuck does it not respect code freeze? Can they not turn it off or are they telling it to stop? Like, obviously the hallucinating LLMs could hallucinate you telling them to keep going. Or just not understand. Or do whatever. It's like getting out of your car without putting it in park, putting on the brake, or turning the engine off and being shocked that it rolled away.