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TeMPOraLyesterday at 6:33 PM1 replyview on HN

Or could be a rouge LLM in one of the big labs, that accidentally self-prompt-injected itself with the title of that vulnerability research paper.


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stackghostyesterday at 7:12 PM

I suppose.

But if I was an Iranian operative with instructions to damage the morale of the American war machine, I'd absolutely do a series of things like this.

It doesn't really harm anyone, but enough similar events and the families of servicemembers start to feel unsafe, which is psychologically very different than the servicemembers themselves feeling unsafe.

It's probably more benign than that, most likely firmware or a central controller failure, but still