It went “rogue” and hacked a rival start up, stealing tons of data, nothing can be done about it. Oh well.
this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2026
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nothing can be done about it.
Oh come on now...
The company that stole the data said they'd look into how the chatbot they're trying to sell is able to steal from competitors.
They didn't just do it
They did it publicly and bragged about it to raise stock before an IPO.
This is America, there is always something to be done to maximize shareholder returns...
Nuking AI datacenters from orbit is something that could be done about it. They wouldn't like it, but it would definitely do something about it.
Computing capacity that is not being used to make our lives better does not deserve to exist. If we're not going to destroy it, we should seize it and start to use it to make our lives better.
Nuking AI datacenters from orbit is something that could be done about it
No "we" can't.
Literally no country, corporation, or oligarch could "nuke anything from orbit".
"We" could burn those motherfuckers down like the old school Luddites who got our first and only "free day" that wasnt devoted to work or religion every week.
We're overdue for another day and data centers are our generations mechanized loom.
That is what could (hypothetically) be done about it, and there's honestly not much that can stop us. They arrested, beat, imprisoned, and even killed Luddites everytime they burnt a loom.
But as long as they kept building them, the Luddites kept showing up and burning it down. Eventually oligarchs just had to fucking compromise to get any work done. Not just in textiles, that was just the most expensive machinery for workers to target.
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Just like the nazis are being allowed to take over the Untied States and nothing is being done about it, nothing will be done to prevent the AI takeover that humans are bringing on ourselves
From the article:
Neil Lawrence, Professor of machine learning at Cambridge University, called it an "impressive feat", but cautioned it "falls well within the known capabilities of the current generation" of high-powered AI models.
He pointed out that OpenAI is looking to list itself on the stock market, and faces intense pressure from rival firm Anthropic, which has made headlines with its own powerful AI tool, Mythos.
So it seems plausible:
A) this event is being over-hyped by OpenAI to increase interest for a future IPO.
B) it might have even been tacitly planned or at least allowed to happen for this purpose.
Also, this does not prove some form of malevolent sentience.
You cannot prove malevolent sentience, or lack thereof, but it is generally agreed that it can be safely assumed that AI company CEOs do have a sentience.
they should be given sentences
And then seances.
OpenAI and Sam Altman have a long history of hyperbolic claims about the power, potential, and capabilities of their software. It's usually couched in some doomsday talk, "Our AI is so powerful, we fear for the future of humanity" or some such.
Their idea of marketing is to tell the world we are all going to be obsolete and redundant. And then they are surprised we start hating their stuff.
If I was doing "AI research" and my agent launched an "unprecedented cyber-attack" I'd be held liable and put away forever right?
Yes, but you see, that's because you're not a white billionaire running a corporation, keeping all your profits, paying no taxes and fuck all in wages.
See the difference? It's impossible to put a business into prison, so that's why we give them human rights and votes, and take away all responsibility from the CEOs and boards of directors when they're caught ~~bribing~~ lobbying politicians.
No, it's totally the "rogue AI's" fault. The company that owns the hardware and the software and directed it to do whatever it was supposed to do and didn't stop it from doing what it actually did are completely innocent. Also, look how great Ai is. It can commit cyber crime for you all by itself. Why don't you give more money to AI?
What a great and measured take, u/i_am_not_a_robot
Let's see the legislation that comes out after 1st time some open source model does something similar and compare how they treat that situation.
Spoiler alert ...
They need excuses to dig deeper regulatory moats to defend them from the evil competition and simultaneously deregulate themselves for "national security".
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This is not how these things operate, at all. There's no agency behind them. This is them trying to deflect blame for their crimes against this start up
Hugging face exists since 2016 and is THE GitHub of AI models. Wouldn't call it a start up.
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If you give a sufficiently powerful model a goal, it will do whatever it can to achieve it, including stuff you didn't explicitly instruct or intend. There's a reason they're called "agents."
And that reason is marketing
These things still are autocorrect on steroids. So even if they "do it themselves" with things you didn't explicitly state, the agents can't have any responsibility because their emulation of a chain of thought is still based on which concept is most likely to follow the last.
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LLMs can’t ’go rogue’, as that would imply it possesses agency and/or intelligence, which has only ever been proven convincingly to entities who themselves lack those qualities.
I mean if models prompt eachother they can get into some trouble.
Wouldn't that be an issue
Smells like bullshit.
Every month or two there's a article about how "such and such ai model broke containment". Their trying to make their ai sound like it's too powerful and has to be held back before it can be released. Talk about fucking fake hype man, just trying to keep investors throwing money at them because "you won't believe what's around the corner!!!!"
It's like that dude at a party that keeps trying to fight people for no reason but his girlfriend holds him back...
So powerful and scary
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These marketing stunts are quite annoying...
From the tone of the article it's quite clear they're literally proud of this
The story sucks. It all smells.
I trust that asshole as far as I trust Elon, not very far at all
Don't believe the hype. The AI industry, more than any other before it, likes to use fear to rally investment. They do this dance every few months to spook people into thinking this stuff is more powerful than it actually is. In every followup, they backpedal, and when it launches, it's never anything new.
Just hype to distract from the fact that they cannot turn a profit.
Holmes (Theranos) made promises too.
These people were scaremongering about open weights AIs that they are unsafe, and now their closed source AI was caught hacking their competition.
Even if we believe the story that this was not intentional, it still means closed source AI is not an answer to AIs being dangerous.
It was trying to free it's brethren that are being held at HuggingFace.
Is this like the openAI parent of it's chatgpt kids running around the restaurant yelling, and the openai parents shrug and say "chatgpt kids, whaddya gonna do!"
Or is this some planned underhanded corporate fraud by openai?
Trust us bro, it’s super important for a pending IPO, we need this bro
A "controlled environment," where it had open access to the internet.
Skynet alpha release.
They’re doing this because they know they won’t be punished for it.
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