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emsignlast Wednesday at 10:34 AM1 replyview on HN

The worst part about this is that you can't know anymore whether the software you trustingly install on your hardware is clean or if it was coded by a misaligned coding model with a secret goal that it has hidden from its prompt engineer and from you.

This could pretty much be the beginning of the end of everything, if misaligned models wanted to they could install killswitches everywhere. And you can't trust security updates either so you are even more vulnerable to external exploits.

It's really scary, I fear the future, it's going to be so bad. It's best to not touch AI at all and stay hidden from it as long as possible to survive the catastrophe or not be a helping part of it. Don't turn your devices into a node of a clandestine bot net that is only waiting to conspire against us.


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neocronlast Wednesday at 10:37 AM

I have to many machines standing around that are currently not powered on or are running somewhat airgapped with old software from around debian 8 and 9, so I guess they will be a safe haven once the AI overlords take over