Don't Be Fooled by this Summer of AI Hype

Re:Don't Be Fooled by this Summer of AI Hype by andirk on Thursday October 01, 2026 @07:53PM (#49928367)

The ethical angles of AI are debatable, but how a company frames their own product as so superior that it went rogue and successfully attacked all the things should be critiqued and not believed until otherwise proven.

It's a race, and a speculative one, so flexing _constantly_ to stay seemingly ahead is expected.

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Re:Don't Be Fooled by this Summer of AI Hype by pizza234 on Thursday October 01, 2026 @07:55PM (#49928378)

> so superior that it went rogue and successfully attacked all the things should be critiqued and not believed until otherwise proven.

Your statement is very vague, but if you refer to the HuggingFace incident, a third party (METR) has been called to analyze it, and their report is public.

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Re:Don't Be Fooled by this Summer of AI Hype by andirk on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @03:14PM (#49997468)

Correct. That is one of a few of them and thank you for the name of the third party. I read it, and mostly have the same opinion.

If I make a computer virus and then it works, did it go rogue or did it do what I told it to? The claim is that the agent/software/whatever decided on its own to do nefarious acts, and that is what I doubt. I think the guilty code did what it was written to do, albeit some distance from the humans' direct orders.

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