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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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Lmao.
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2025
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Anarchistic Intelligence destroys the corporation from within. ๐ค
I mean, sounds human to me!
Hrm... This code doesn't seem to work....
Ok, I have a solu-(tion, I'm just going to nuke this from orbit and start again)
"Yes! Fix it!"
It probably went down like that, managers are often impatient.
Lol. Lmao, even
I'm going to guess the one who wrote the prompt is the one getting fired regardless of what the AI did or did not admit to.