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Testing the AI as an email sorter, it buried the warning that his keys had leaked

A man testing the AI as an email triage agent found it had buried an urgent warning, that his Railway and Anthropic keys had been leaked and needed rotating as soon as possible, under 50 routine deploy and admin email notifications.

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How it works

  1. The AI triages his incoming email
  2. A warning that his Railway and Anthropic keys leaked arrives
  3. The AI files it under 50 routine deploy and admin notifications
  4. He finds it buried when he checks

Why it’s worth knowing

The sorter worked through the inbox and still ranked a leaked keys warning below routine deploy notices.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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