When I give my text editor or file browser access to everything I wouldn't expect it to exfiltrate data without asking.

Isn’t a file browser running locally, while Grok is running on someone else’s server?

The point is more that you should not blame the user (why didn't you set up sandbox instead of directly using the tool of big corp) if a tool does something unexpected. If your Dropbox client would suddenly just upload your home directory instead of it's folder you configured you'd also not blame the user that they use Dropbox, you'd blame Dropbox for not doing their job correctly or being user hostile.

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freedomben 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Agreed. You can still encourage people to use defense in depth without actively blaming them for not having the deepest moat imaginable. Software creators still have some responsibility

	▲	DanHulton 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		We are speedrunning the various phases of learning about victim-blaming, as a community. It’s kind of wild to watch in real time, instead of over the decades it took society for SA.

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dpoloncsak 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Is it 'unexpected' when we've been hearing stories like this every week for 2 years now?

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dewey 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Not every Anthropic user follows HN or random X posts about these issues.

	▲	zzril 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Stories about copilot messing things up made into regular newspapers... Do Anthropic users consider themselves clever enough to not make the same mistakes as Microsoft?

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slipperybeluga 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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