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Jenniferplusplusjenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io
Sep 13, 2026, 12:43 AM
I just, i dunno. They said this would necessarily happen if anyone built the chatbot. They said it couldn't be prevented. They said they would build the chatbot if they got enough money. They got the money, built the chatbot, the thing happened, and there seems to be no indication that they even tried to prevent it.
This reads to me like a premeditated conspiracy to do computer crimes on a massive scale? Like, I don't know how you see it any other way.
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Jenniferplusplusjenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io
Sep 13, 2026, 10:25 PM
Muting this; please behave
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anniethebruce@transfem.social
Sep 13, 2026, 3:08 AM
@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io Only reinforcing my view that AI should still be primarily a project in a lab somewhere, not a commercial product(and of course sourcing of training data and general resource usage need to be fixed if I'd ever trust it at scale, and no one seems to be working on those issues)
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rakoorakoo@blah.rako.space
Sep 13, 2026, 4:42 AM
@jenniferplusplus

Even from a purely economic view this all is stupid. Trillions of dollars and all they have to show for it is uploading packages to a server ? So the lesson is basically that given enough money brute force actually works ? sigh
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Kees de Kooter 🍉 🇺🇦kdekooter@mastodon.social
Sep 13, 2026, 8:27 AM
@jenniferplusplus You are absolutely right. Of course they could have prevented it. As Cory Doctorow @pluralistic said: "The Hugging Face hack isn't a mysterious, supernatural occurrence. It's a Python loop and a chatbot"
See https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/god-in-the-box/
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F4GRX SÃ©bastien ⸚f4grx@chaos.social
Sep 13, 2026, 11:24 AM
@jenniferplusplus torment nexus has never be that close to reality
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🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑brouhaha@mastodon.social
Sep 13, 2026, 12:07 PM
@jenniferplusplus
It would have been absolutely TRIVIAL for them to prevent it. They could simply have never powered up their data centers. Better yet, never have built them in the first place. They would have saved a ton of money, too. It would have been a win all around!
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Christophe B. :android:bladecoder@androiddev.social
Sep 13, 2026, 12:29 PM
@jenniferplusplus It seems that AI companies are now competing for who's going to cause the most damage.
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Jeff GriggJeffGrigg@mastodon.social
Sep 14, 2026, 1:28 PM
@jenniferplusplus
They're just trying to build The Torment Nexus, just like the book says.
Actually, this is the book:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/if-anyone-builds-it-everyone-dies-why-superhuman-ai-would-kill-us-all-eliezer-yudkowsky/2da88520a671d222
[And no, I don't believe a word of it.]
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