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Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net

267 points · 313 comments · snikolaev

  1. dwedge · · focus · HN ↗
    Why do we assume "rogue"? At this point it's just accepting their marketing at face value
    1. cubefox · · focus · HN ↗
      That's not OpenAI doing marketing!
      1. dwedge · · focus · HN ↗
        Of course it is. Rogue is only mentioned in the headline, and comes from their previous releases about the huggingface incidents. OpenAI and Anthropic want these models regulated and open weight models banned, they have a lot of benefit from presenting this as totally unprompted and not their responsibility, and it feeds directly into marketing for Fable and newer "cyber" models.
        1. cubefox · · focus · HN ↗
          No it's not marketing. That's a completely deranged conspiracy theory. The reports about rouge agents have not been reported by OpenAI, they have been discovered externally. There is zero evidence that OpenAI did all this intentionally. All the evidence points to the hacks having happened unintentionally from OpenAIs perspective.
          1. isolay · · focus · HN ↗
            Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
            1. cubefox · · focus · HN ↗
              Absence of evidence is evidence of absence. You have not provided any evidence yourself.
        2. JacobKfromIRC · · focus · HN ↗
          Do you think Transluce is intentionally doing marketing on behalf of OpenAI or Anthropic? Or do you think Transluce just copied OpenAI's word choice?
          1. dwedge · · focus · HN ↗
            The latter. I think they took OpenAI at their word
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