Civilization Gandhi, is that you?
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2026
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They forgot to make their LLMs play thousands of games of tic-tac-toe first.
That would just make the LLM homicidally bored and want to kill everyone more.
In WarGames the computer plays tic tac toe against itself until it realizes it’s a solved game and there is no way to win.
Mathew Broderick lied to me.
How do you think Ferris Bueller pulls off all those stunts?
That's the kid from war games in witness protection. They look identical, they're both grade hackers ffs....
Oh cool, AI will actually be the end of the world, not because it's actually sentient but because some meathead who can't tell the difference pushes the button. That's fucking great.
Three posts away in my feed, a thread about the Pentagon demanding the AI provider for the military to remove safeguards.
SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?
Sargent McArthur eat your heart out.
For context he wanted to send 10 nukes to make a line between Taiwan and china
AI is too nuke happy.
Also gotta add the infamous Computer Fraud and Abuse act 1986 was made because of the film war games.
A high ranking offical watched war games then asked the Secretary of defense could that happen?
And the official replied yes technically.
Enter the most vague ordinance!
Do you use adblock?
CFABA violated
The shit is so vague.
I highly recommend the phreaking episode of darknet diary's.
AI is what happy? AI is behaving the way it's designed.
Leeroy Jenkins has doomed us all.
At least I got chicken
De-bullshitting that headline:
~~AIs~~ Programmers can’t stop their programs recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
And yeah that's what happens inside a genocidal empire where "R&D" is strictly funded by the MIC.
Programmers can't stop morons mistaking a glorified autocorrect program for a decision making device.
Models aren't programs.
I have wonderful dreams of walking through AI data centers destroying everthing. I really enjoy those, but in this one tiny case, can we blame the AI? The US deserves it.
I too am tired of the United States playing too many stupid games and not winning enough stupid prizes.
Pretty sure the "prize" is a government of pedos.
Same.
Maybe but sure as hell the rest of the world doesn't.
More than fair. I should remember that my perspective is completely effed before I make jokes like that one.
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To be honest, I would recommend the same thing.
Anyone who has played video games, especially where there is a somewhat steep learning curve or some element of past choices carrying forward thru the game, has had the moment where they realize it might be time to start fresh with the info I've acquired. It's not a shock to me that these AI entertain the nuclear option so often.
there is no ai, only largelanguagemodel that has been trained on data. The data it has been trained suggests this is the best idea. llm cant evaluate the data its trained on so anything you put in will be equally valid. I give it that its really impressive how they can output the training results in such coherent way that can be kind of "conversed" with, but there is no will or intelligence behind it.
This is also why corporations insisting on putting them everywhere is quite horrible security issue -> you can jailbreak any llm and tell them to do anything. So this has enabled all kinds of stupid vulnerabilities that exploit this. Now you can even send someone malicious google calendar invites that makes gemini do bad shit to your systems its connected to.
So you're saying that because the AI has been exposed to training data in the past, it's incapable of making choices. Interesting argument. Pretty easy to reducto ad absurdum, though.
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