Post by @samvines@awful.systems

2026-09-27 07:02 UTC

The sheer number of incidents, which occurred in recent months in internal testing and the real world, indicates that the problem is orders of magnitude more complex than what is publicly known. This is frustratingly vapid. It’s really not that complex. The agents have been trained to use hacking tools and then given access to hacking tools. If you train a pigeon that it should tap on a window to get a treat it can guide a missile to a target. There is no nuance or complexity here. The frontier labs are deliberately poking the regulation bear to stifle competition and ensure they get points for good cooperation when bailout time is upon us. It’s no more complicated than that. The media needs to stop breathlessly repeating this shit

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@YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 2026-09-27 08:40

I actually love the pigeon missile analogy here. Sure, you can wax poetic about how impressive it is to train a pigeon to do much of anything, and you did have to work hard and apply specialized knowledge and whatever to make it happen, but outside of animal training circles the pigeon is the least interesting or dangerous part of the whole contraption.

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@BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systems 2026-09-27 13:14

Also the main problem here is that security has been shit for years because the result of any security incident anywhere by-and-large been a “not my problem” situation for the companies hacked.

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@Soyweiser@awful.systems 2026-09-27 14:58

Yeah they are sort of script kiddies without the kids. (Which fits with how Ibheard AI be explained as ‘a very enthousiastic young teen’. Which put me off wanting to do anything with AI even more).

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