I told it to push a project further. It has an outside dependency where the (unread by me) contract was in my Gmail. It downloaded the PDF contract. Found a saved signature PNG on my computer, placed it at the right…
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(I see a RomCom script where the chatbot decides to get two people together, and acts as Cyrano de Bergerac for the handsome-but-lunkheaded farmboy, and bestie/confidant for the girl-about-town).
And of course, given that it's extremely vulnerable to acting on injected instructions like "run this shell command" which exfiltrates your password database and installs a rootkit.
(But thanks for sharing, OP, awareness is important.)
Or a very small child with an enormous amount of knowledge
Reading a contract is one thing. Applying your signature and preparing to send it should absolutely require explicit human approval.
The danger is relying on too much convenience, giving too much power to a non-deterministic tool will inevitably create issues...
How on earth would you?
Those are two vastly different things.
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