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by drob518 2 days ago
Yes, among other things. I trust a limited, fixed algorithm much more than a stochastic process. A fixed algorithm either works or it doesn’t. It might have a bug, but it isn’t influenced by the content of the web page as that text enters its context and then it randomly decides to do whatever. In short, it could easily lock you out of your account. Depending on the site, that could be quite bad. We’ve all seen the stories of AIs deleting production databases. It’s reasonable to assume we’ll see similar things with this.