Post by @cannedtuna@lemmy.world

2026-10-07 02:39 UTC

Explaining “rogue” AIs Source Transcript Explain it to me like I’m 80 Mom: What’s with these AIs escaping and hacking people? That sounds scary. Me: You park your car at the top of a hill. You leave a note on the dashboard that says “please be good” and then you pull the parking brake. The car careens down the hill, smashes everything up, and you put out a press release saying “My car ignored my instructions! It hallucinated! It went rogue!” Your insurance company not only believes you, but invests a hundred million dollars in your company. Mom: Jesus Fucking Christ

Replies (10)

@jballs@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-07 03:03

Kurzgesagt put out an interesting video on that Open AI hack that was in the news recently. Also, I’m not saying AI companies shouldn’t be held liable. But they definitely don’t know what the fuck they’re unleashing. youtu.be/ujkD4SxPKOI

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@Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-07 04:47

I left the door open and turned off the laser fence, so my Roomba broke containment despite me telling it not to.

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@FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 2026-10-07 04:54

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@stoy@lemmy.zip 2026-10-07 05:13

It is veey simple, the more advanced the AI, the better it sells. You hold all evidence of potential “breaches of containment”. Telling everyone that your AI is so advanced that it can breach containment without prompting, puts the spotlight on your AI model. You can claim that it did fantastic feats to break out, all with pre planned evidence. The public and regulatory bodies have been in complete AI psychosis mode ever since ChatGPT was released, and only care about how advanced the model is, not how shit your containment was, nor that if true, how reckless it is to keep the model active. Note that I am not pointing to any one single AI company and saying that they are faking these breaches, I have no evidence of that, I am saying that I don’t trust their reporting accuracy, they don’t have a good track record of being honest. I am also angry at how society just seems to eat it all up and ask for more despite the vile aftertaste.

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@grue@lemmy.world 2026-10-07 04:09

“Pulling” the parking brake sets it, damn it! I refuse to acknowledge shitbox automatics with an atrophied third pedal that functions incorrectly instead of a proper handbrake lever.

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@Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-10-07 05:25

Me: I just dont see how in any world you believe the earth is flat. This just isnt you. Its never been you. Why would you even say that? Mom: Tina foil hats keep the mind rays from getting you.

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@NotAnOtter@lemmus.org 2026-10-07 05:30

My go to simplification is “They built a robot that hacks software and then placed it in a box that uses software as a lock and then the robot that hacks software hacked the software lock”. Which is both very simple and also about as accurate as you could make it in that many words. The AI’s are not ‘rogue’ it was just solving the problem it was given.

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@cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-10-07 04:18

The news media completely failed on this, again. There was nothing rogue about these hacks. The companies prompted these systems, provided ample resources and just let them rip. Only to claim they went “rogue” afterwards. And by and large everyone just accepts that, it’s driving me insane. I feel like Mugatu every day when it comes to AI reporting.

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@Hiro8811@lemmy.world 2026-10-07 07:13

AI is just rogue code

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@MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 2026-10-07 22:21

Oh, absolutely not. This is missing one step: actually push the car down. All these “rogue” LLMs were told to do what they did.

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