Comment on Does anyone actually believe this "rogue AI" nonsense?
gastroglizzy@piefed.social 3 weeks 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.
But for real it’s cyber infrastructure espionage that they’re doing. They’re programming the bots and getting caught by cyber security and testing the securities of major companies to promote Ai. Then to cover themselves they’re screaming, “They went rogue” and everything’s fine on their end.
They’re creating a demand for Ai cyber security where there is none, while also trying to stir fear.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 weeks 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.
lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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
dgdft@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks 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.
ArseAssassin@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 weeks 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.
tfm@europe.pub 2 weeks ago
METR is associated to Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO)
Rhaedas@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
So, serious question. Do you think they're all in it together to make AI look smart, or is he trying to make OpenAI seem like the more irresponsible company for security? Or maybe it's a legit organization set up when there was lots of talk about safety?
tfm@europe.pub 2 weeks ago
The first one