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Re:The Download: why AI's latest breakthroughs and fears may... by ForHackernews on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @07:56AM (#49814739)
Despite continuously waving their hands and shrieking about how this thing will literally wipe out all of humanity they couldn't be bothered to airgap it from the internet when testing.

So yes, I think it was equivalent to testing their new rocket by launching it over a population center. oops, we didn't intend for it to crash on that preschool, but we also didn't follow the most basic safety protocol imaginable

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Re:The Download: why AI's latest breakthroughs and fears may... by afthonos on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @08:20AM (#49815009)
The problem is that the world has spawned the insane take that because they didn't use the most basic safety protocol imaginable, they were clearly only testing a hot air balloon, and hot air balloons obviously destroy preschools in giant explosions, nothing to see here.

"If they believe what they say they were incompetent" -> absolutely true statement.

"They were incompetent, therefore they didn't believe what they said" -> Sir, I'd like to introduce you to human beings, you may not have met one before.

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