All of these "hacks" try to make it seem as if they are done through intelligence. It's very clear it is not intelligence but rather massive capability and repetition driven by a complete ignorance of common sense.

And?

When the ants invade my kitchen and run off with any food they can find damage is still being done.

And it's partially a marketing stunt. You think the execs and shareholders don't love it when they get to say our model is so smart it broke free from its chains? It's the reverse. It's so stupid it can't follow the basic spirit of instructions.

I don't know how good of a marketing ploy it is, tbh. Considering it paints them as incompetent, and that they cannot be trusted with developing this technology safely.

> It's so stupid it can't follow the basic spirit of instructions

I read this as more of a misaligned intelligence, as opposed to a lack of it entirely.

ok and you put some drops of tero or whatever

their whole colony is wiped out in a couple days

And then a few days another colony is coming back. Except this time the evolutionary training ensured that poison doesnt work any longer.

i ain’t no b* im a human being

we will annihilate their species and forget they ever existed

Humans: I will kill anything in my way.

[Turns out to be a critical part of the ecosystem]

Humans: Oh fuck!

happens lol