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1. torben-friis · 1790259784 · focus · HN ↗

   The thing I hate the most about tech, and I feel completely impotent to change minds on this, is the "fake life" tolerances it is afforded.

   Airbnb is not regulated like a hotel because it's tech. Crypto isn't betting because it's tech. Now even breaching state data is ignored.

   Can you imagine walking out of a ministry with a stolen cabinet? You'd get shot for doing this physically and people wouldn't bat an eye.

   1. zobzu · 1790260120 · focus · HN ↗

      hn is surprisingly lacking in critical thinking lately. everything is going to be "rogue agent did x", when a human prompted it until their prod env went down, and it'll be called "a hack" or whatever.

      The "agents" dont walk out of openai, anthropic and whatever headquarters and decide to go wreak havoc. They also don't read a prompt and decide "haha imma hack the NSA now", that's not how any of this works lol.

      1. wky · 1790261520 · focus · HN ↗

         “Rogue uranium escapes from Chornobyl reactors.”
      2. whalabi · 1790262846 · focus · HN ↗

         For at least the hugging face incident, the agents did indeed decide entirely on their own to hack. It's documented extensively by independent researchers.

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