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OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3ek3gvdnj3o
39•vinni2•54m ago

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Oras•46m ago
Same pattern as Fable's story?
ImPostingOnHN•27m ago
yes, same company PR release, different company

clearly openai wants some of that FUD money that anthropic got

_joel•27m ago
Of course it did.
economistbob•27m ago
So, telling us that the laws do not apply to them and that they may commit crimes with impunity
reactordev•19m ago
“It wasn’t me, it was my agent” is not a defense unless you have billions of dollars.
rawling•26m ago
Some discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997548

zipy124•14m ago
Some is quite the understatement haha!
SirFatty•25m ago
It sure did, said Sam on the way to the Pentagon.
blini-kot•24m ago
i wonder if they even bothered to roleplay this incident or the PR team just made it up
nonadhocproblem•22m ago
just like they RPed disproving the erdos conjecture
phpnode•22m ago
This kind of narrative is going to bite them just like the "AI will take your job" narrative has. It feels like the frontier labs are taking a massive gamble with public perception here. I assume the goal is to paint the technology as so powerful and dangerous that only a handful of blessed US companies should be trusted to run it, in an attempt to suppress the rise of the Chinese models that are rapidly catching them.
reactordev•20m ago
That’s the play. That these frontier models are so powerful that they must be behind sovereign firewalls and gateways.
solumunus•11m ago
Please buy our IPO before it crashes so we can be billionaires.
MarcScott•10m ago
Didn't HF use an open weights model running on their own hardware to solve the issue though? Sort of defeats that narrative and plays into one in which frontier == bad_guys and open == good_guys
datakan•11m ago
Are the Chinese models actually catching up or are they just distilling the frontiers? If it's all just distilling then they'll always be behind.
amazingamazing•9m ago
Who told you they were distilling? Why might they say this? Think. It’s like complaining that the top student only does well by going to office hours instead of mindlessly reading textbooks.
nottorp•19m ago
What I wonder is what will Anthropic come up with on the PR front next.
datakan•9m ago
"Our model is so powerful it seduced all our wives. Now every woman in Silicon Valley is pregnant with AI babies and the machines are taking over"

New opportunities for AI in the porn industry. I'm only half joking, it used to be a meme on the internet that all new technologies online were driven by the porn industry.

phoronixrly•19m ago
OpenAI has been going rogue on all my servers for a while now. The only reason why I've deployed iocaine in front of everything... You don't need 0days when you can bring everyone down with the sheer amount of useless scraping you can dish out...
tom1337•17m ago
I know this is totally unrelated but why is there an image from an android phone having the Apple AppStore open?
minraws•15m ago
Gpt-6 hacked Apple to enable this feature. We just haven't heard about it yet.
throwa356262•16m ago
Off topic:

What a low effort image used by BBC. For one, that's a oneplus phone visiting Apple App Store ...

khernandezrt•16m ago
Here we go with the sensationalism.
jdw64•14m ago
Why does the AI unprecedent always unfold in ways that only benefit AI companies? You never see things like putting all code and weights on GitHub, or plastering employees' personal info all over LinkedIn. That alone shows AI is definitely smart
shunted22•13m ago
Was the engineer eating a sandwich in the park when it messaged him it escaped, like when mythos escaped?
eur0pa•12m ago
Oh no oh dear me oh we apologize it's so powerful and dangerous and worthy of more investment
ex1fm3ta•12m ago
On today`s episode of "Ai Frontier Labs ongoing scams"
dev1ycan•10m ago
Every time, this is getting old
stabbles•7m ago
Imagine this: OpenAI runs their benchmarks of unreleased models on systems physically disconnected from the internet.
rdtsc•8m ago
Well that and also benchmaxxing.
f6v•8m ago
There's no reason they can't build their own models from the first principles. They have the hardware, energy, and enough CS scientists.
gonzo41•9m ago
Agree, they also may find themselves in a place where the government rightly says they can't have their dangerous new toy because they can't be safe with it. This is a high stakes PR game. Governments can and will step in and embargo and regulate these systems in ways which will hurt the companies and investors.
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