Post #4008289

2026-07-22 08:29 UTC

This is #AIhype disguised as a confession. OpenAI wants to pretend that its product has supernatural powers. The LLM didn't "go rogue" and it didn't "infer" anything. It did what its programmers designed it to do, when they gave it the necessary information to target Hugging Face and failed to isolate it in a sandbox. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/technology/openai-attack-hugging-face.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zlA.kI7n.HgoniJc3OqNw&smid=url-share

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@wendigo@metalhead.club 2026-07-22 08:35

@gleick@mas.to It's like I've been saying all a long, the developers hard code the behaviors they want people / investors to see, and then claim it's intuition or intelligence. It's just (not so) ordinary fraud...

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@JanPV@mastodon.social 2026-07-22 08:46

@gleick@mas.to Are they seriously expecting us to buy the idea that computers can't - and, for testing, must be - physically disconnected from the internet?

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@skyblitz@mstdn.social 2026-07-22 09:08

@gleick@mas.to yeeeeaaah the """"bug"""" excuse ... absolutely not a staged attack for advertisement before the IPO ...

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@jmcclure@sciences.social 2026-07-22 12:46

@gleick@mas.to I'm okay with either interpretation: if we grant LLMs agency such that they can "go rogue", then they can be held accountable for their crimes. The LLMs should be incarcerated for a suitable sentence during which no one can use them. Alternatively, if they don't have agency (which they don't) then the programmers or users are liable for the crimes. But somehow we're allowing everyone and everything to dodge any responsibility for anything.

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@bobmagicii@phpc.social 2026-07-22 20:17

@gleick@mas.to im convinced it didnt do any of that and that is just their cover story after getting caught. its literally a b movie script. "oh no our ai is too good isnt that crazy damn"

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