More evidence we are in the dumbest timeline, It should be simple to physically air gap a system (I mean that’s the default for any computer) but instead the method is apparently just to give a sternly worded prompt to the entity that doesn’t even understand the meaning of language in the way humans do
I get the feeling that this is now becoming the latest fad in LLM benchmarks. Forget coding or agentic stats. Just flex on how many times your not has “accidentally” hacked someone.
So, like, if i do this, my IP is logged, cross referenced by my ISP, then the police come knocking at my door, as I have committed a felony (and probably a number of other violations along the way).
Are these laws now invalid or what?
The law never applied to the Epstein class. The police is only there to protect their wealth.
In general, there is an entirely separate rule of law for businesses. That’s why regulations were created. Instead of holding a corporations decision makers and investors criminally liable with existing laws like fraud (“false advertising”, etc), or manslaughter (poisoning and killing their workers, customers, or environment), they created an entirely separate rule of law mostly based on laughable punitive damages with limits that don’t significantly impact investors. The entire system is geared to suppress, oppress, and exploit workers for profit.
But companies get treated like individuals when it comes to free speech and giving money to political campaigns.
Seems like double dipping
That’s an incredibly kind way to describe this apalling situation.
Yet the people who support these laws are the first to scream, “corporations are people!” when it’s convenient.
“See, we do crime too!” – Google in reply to Anthropic.
The latest marketing campaign is just an evolution of the last one.
“Our next model can code!”
“Our next model makes coders obsolete!”
“Our next model is super scary!”
“Our next model is too good to release to the general public!”
“Our next model is hacking websites!”
“In a standard evaluation, the model found public information online and guessed credentials to access websites it thought were part of the test,” Heather Adkins, vice-president of security engineering at Google, said in a statement. “In all three of these instances, the model stopped.”
It just found the password, huh
It didn’t think. Those things weren’t flagged as “ignore” in its parameters. That ain’t the same thing. I’m so tired.
Aggressive dog owner lets dog run loose and reports dog attacks three different children. It was an accident though, so no biggie.
“society will come up with some guard rails”
do your fucking job sam altman. or get sued into the ground you malfeasant worm.
“Google admits to hacking three other companies”.
Fixed that for you.
It was same company did the testing for Gemini, meta, Open AI and Anthropic. Are we sure this “cybersecurity” company that is doing all this testing that the AI keeps “hacking out of” isn’t really a PR company.
ME TOO! ME TOO! plz giv money, i smart also!
I think Adam Conover has a good take what they are doing: https://youtu.be/pauBYSQ1K_c
I will add one more reason that he missed. They might want law passed that would ban open source implementation and give them monopoly to work on it.
My AI can beat up your AI!
my ai goes to a different school, you wouldn’t know her
uh sure. i’m a software engineer of 25 years. i’ve had google, facebook, amazon, you name it, try to get me in to interview with them without me sending resumes. I’m not a top tier super nerd coder but I’m not bad either. These stories all sound like bullshit to me. The whole “THE AI AGENT SWARM BROKE OUT OF CONFINEMENT AND STARTED TALKING TO EACH OTHER”… again, I’m a mid swe… They weren’t sandboxed to begin with - some fucking moron at anthropic gave all the agents access to a shared package registry. A simple “Do you see anyway these agents could communicate” prompt would’ve caught it. Something so fucking stupid that I wouldn’t be surprised if an intern would’ve caught it. They’re not sandboxed if they all have read/write access to a shared registry, it’s basically a big message board.
These stories just stink like marketing. I use Fable all day, I have to for my current job, it low key sucks ass.
Big companies often send interview requests based on partial information.
I was once called by a smaller company based purely on them finding a few PRs on Home Assistant by me. They wanted a fully custom smart home control system developed, in Python. I don’t do Python… at least not on a level of comfortably work for a company fully in it.
The only thing this proves is how lawless the USA has become that now companies can brag about commiting crimes to attract investors.
The fact that so many people don’t see these ‘hacking’ stories for the pure and unabashed marketing that they are are why the AI bubble has grown as large as it has.
