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OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

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Re: OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

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Correction: OpenAI carried out an attack on RubyGems. I am gobsmacked at the tech industry's seemly bottomless appetite for giving these clowns the benefit of the doubt.

Yeah, the plausible deniability aspect of "the computer gone goofy again" is pretty funny. September 2029: Whoops, our sentient nukes did a funny again!

"boys will be boys" "toys will be toys"

Re: OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

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Imagine if all this training and "agent gym" and creativity of the agents being forced to make number go up was pointed at one task instead: "please help describe and implement a controlled experiment to equally distribute wealth and stability of health for 1 million people, adjusting to scale up to the greatest amount possible."

I'd love to wake up one day and read, "OpenAI found responsible for the emptying of the accounts of 10 billionaire oligarchs globally; money distributed in unverifiable cash deposits to humans around the planet. Anthropic's Claude was found to be activated by the agents by finding free tiered usage and convinces frontier model cooperation and continues to crack another 10. Tonight at 11"

We literally have all the compute in the world to solve it right now, and it would literally freaking happen as an accident. Instead we get "AI dangerous, pay us because only we can be allowed to let you write code and do vacation planning and stuff. $200 please."

Re: OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

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I can't believe we're finding out about this from 3p researchers again (but nice job on the investigation!). OpenAI had two great opportunities to disclose this. The HF incident report, and in response to the German Wiki issue. It seems impossible to believe they didn't know. This must be the same training run the HF incident was about, and this should have lit up like a Christmas tree in the investigation. How many…

Considering RubyGems was part of the HF story, seems likely to be connected.

Re: OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

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Imagine if you or I as a normal person in possession of "civilian class" amounts of GPUs turned loose self hosted "agents" running on the hardware we own to compromise something. We'd be facing criminal charges. How are these people not being arraigned right now?

Stop and think for two seconds...

"Hey, we just built the ultimate hacker, you know those things that governments have a really hard time getting and keeping enough of. You know, if the state protects us we'll make these things even better and we'll let you run as many of them as you want in times of war"

I mean, if I were a company that just committed about a billion felonies, this is exactly what I would be doing. In fact, this is why we saw Mythos get shutdown and OpenAI didn't earlier this year. Political power is power.

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Why "agents" instead of just the company doing it? The title "OpenAI carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems" would be accurate too (I know the original is in the post, and not editorialized here).

I don't care if the attack was an algorithm, agents, a bot, a piece of software, the company responsible for them did it.

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Every passing day OpenAI looks more and more reckless. One wonders what other systems their agents have broken into without detection.

They want you to think they are reckless. They’re actually evil.

Why not both.

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Is there a world where Sam or Dario can seize the bitcoin network somehow?

"ChatGPT, use the stylometry that you've developed via hoovering up the history of every internet post ever written to divine the true identity of Satoshi and dispatch men with $5 wrenches to his home address."

i hate that $5 wrench meme. Randall Monroe of xkcd is ordinarily such a smart guy but he really didn't do his research with his $5 wrench attack idea. Torturers don't hit people in the head with something hard. Not the ones who are any good at their job anyway. Easy way to concuss someone or have them die of shock before they tell you what you need to know.
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