I know just the audience for this

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Should only be used with extreme caution and if you know what you are doing.

Ok. What is the actual use case for “rm -rf /“ even if you know what you are doing and using extreme caution? If you want to wipe a disk, there are better ways to do it, and you certainly wouldn’t want that disk mounted on / when you do it, right?

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Damn, these things are getting scary good.

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There probably isn't one and there really doesn't have to be one. The ability to do it is a side effect of the versatility of the command.

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It can’t actually spawn shell commands (yet.) But some idiot will make it do that, and that will be a fun code injection when it happens, watching the mainstream media try to explain it.

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You might be right. But I’d like to hear from other bone users.

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there are a number of commands that will destroy your computer. rm is just one of the easiest that is also somewhat obtuse

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My point was, the ai wasn’t talking about “rm” in general.

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There isn't. It's just the fact that it will. The command can/is used often to remove other directories

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Tell moarz ?

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That's Robert von Tables to you.

Queen HawlSera

Dude, don't gaslight someone into suicide, not even ChatGPT

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You could get it to run a fork bomb. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_bomb

Pup Biru

essentially rather than generating a reply meant for a human, they generate a special reply that the software interprets as “call this tool”. in th same way as the system prompt where the model operator tells the system how to behave, you tell the model what tools and parameters are available to it (for example, load page is a common one)… when the software receives a call for the tool, it calls real code to perform an action, and then responds to the model so that it can continue to process. in this way, the model may kind of request access to limited external resources

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None. Remember that the response is AI generated. It's probabilistically created from people's writings. There are strong relations between that command and other 'dangerous commands.' Writings about 'dangerous commands ' oft contain something about how they should 'only be run by someone who knows what they are doing' so the response does too.

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Reminds me of "If you want God Mode, hold Alt and press F4"

stebo

isn't the command meant to be used on a certain path? like if you just graduated high school, you can just run "rm -rf ~/documents/homework/" ?

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Microsoft's copilot takes offense and ends the conversation if you call it useless. even though it's a fact.

stebo

they may be dumb but they're not stupid

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Delete system32 to make your computer run faster.

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It is moments like this where I wished docker didn't exist. Could of made some news headlines.