Posted by 882542F3884314B 2 days ago
Did they just…let it do whatever with nobody watching?!
Are they flipping serious with this?
My friend went to jail for reporting a vulnerability he found on his college network because it was illegal to poke around the network in the first place.
These guys commit a crime to boost an IPO and most people are just thinking about how impressive it is.
This is not impressive as it is not ingenious. It is impressive because it is done by a machine. But if the solution hadn’t been in the knowledge it would not have been able todo it.
Imagine reading a „getting started“ that includes absolutely everything, after that all is just like a set of Lego, given enough time you will have what is asked for. But nothing original, because it never had an original thought.
Part of the solution involved discovering two separate zero-day vulnerabilities in Artifactory, so saying the solution must have "been in the knowledge" doesn't really cut it here.
- AI is amoral and lacks any sense of proportion
- People who overestimate their own control but have a desperate need for money made it that way.
The AI companies seem pretty bad at setting up tests. And really good at marketing those failures into spin at how amazing their products are.
The paranoid style in American PR (with apologies to Richard Hofstadter)
The fact that the world has become susceptible to what amounts to a mob shakedown - look at how dangerous our amazing products are, don't you need them to protect you from others misusing our products? - is to me a really compelling example of US gun lobby thinking leaking out into a global problem.
Anthropic and OpenAI may be able to bounce this into restrictions on open weights models, but they are going to have a lot less luck extending this into foreign policy. If the USA can't control its weapons, they aren't going to see a lot of co-operation from foreign countries on a blockade of open weights modeld from China.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0kCY
It was submitted to HN previously but was overlooked.
Edit: after watching the video in full, this company is widely incompetent…