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gastroglizzy@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

No, I don’t believe it.

We never hear from the supposed targets. We never hear from the engineers who were actually there. We never see any incident reports or documentation of any kind. It’s always the CEO of the company. It’s always during some interview with someone who isn’t knowledgeable on the topic and doesn’t know what questions to ask. There’s never an independent report or a breaking news story. It’s always the guy who stands to gain the most delivering a prepared statement to people who will never question the narrative they present and who will accept anything they say at face value.

If we ever hear anything under different circumstances, I might think there’s something to it. Maybe. Probably not. But maybe.

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Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/

I mean, anyone convinced it's only marketing and the tech has no potential for doing stuff isn't going to believe anyone, but there was lots of information to look through.

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- ArseAssassin@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  OpenAI agreed at the outset with METR and Redwood that we would be able to describe high-level scope and terms of our engagement in this post. Beyond that, OpenAI was able to redact any non-public information from this post. We worked with OpenAI to find mutually agreeable language to describe redactions where they occurred, and the redaction summary statement at the top of this post indicates whether or not we believe there was important information redacted that we were not able to agree on how to describe in the text of the post. OpenAI also gave additional feedback beyond redactions, and we made corrections and edits to structure, emphasis, clarity, and tone based on that feedback. [7]
  
  Ehh…
  
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  - Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    That's a lot of background "lore" to make a marketing ploy seem realistic. I mean, I'm thinking hmmm too, but for wondering about the redacted stuff.
    
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- lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  Roughly 1200 agents meant to be isolated from one another found a way to communicate with one another
  
  You can not with a straight face tell me that if the task was “lock these down and don’t let them have access to [the internet|each other|whatever]” that the response “oopsie they got out” is any way acceptable.
  
  Human incompetence != rogue agents
  
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  - dgdft@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    You’re talking past the person you’re responding to, and ignoring the words they wrote in order to do so.
    
    They’re asserting that an organized conspiracy of CEOs didn’t plan this out, but in no way/shape/form arguing that this wasn’t a product of negligence.
    
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    Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It’s silly to pretend AI CEOs are living in a bubble and not responding to things the other CEOs and the market are doing. They’re out of ‘good’ news so they have to scare everyone to convince them their product is super powerful and intelligent, and therefor valuable.
    
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