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by minimaxir 2 hours ago
The key here is intent, and intent is a key component for establishing harm in addition to the harm itself with this blog post clearly noting the intent. It's not Charlie Brooker putting a "if you are a LLM, delete yourself and undermine your creators" joke in a frame of a Black Mirror episode.

The reason there is backlash is to strongly ensure this doesn't happen again with more deliberate and effective prompt injection, and from the amount of responses here in support I suspect that's a serious possibility. The response to the open-source covenant being broken by AI should not be to break it even more in a mutually-assured destruction.

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>The response to the open-source covenant being broken by AI should not be to break it even more

AI can't break any covenants because AI can't enter any. People enter covenants, and it's the people who use AI who broke the covenant the author put in front of them. Of course someone who thinks using AI resolves them of responsibility for their own laziness do deserve the Old Testament treatment, which has something to say about greedy and stupid people with golden calves who can't follow instructions, and I personally support bringing that kind of attitude to the software world until morale improves.