alt Hacker NewsAre we collectively OK with agent swarms on the public internet, hacking whatever they feel like? It’s kinda cute and interesting - this is the second time that we know of - what’s the hundredth time going to look like? Are they going to knock Cloudflare down to avoid captchas? Reserve AWS free tier resources by the billions and bring down east-1? Hack a hospital?
Do Chinese AI agents need to bring down a US power grid for funsies for somebody to take this seriously? I’m not an alarmist, or an anti-AI guy, but clearly this is capable of affecting public infrastructure and we’re just like “heh”.
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I’ve read thousands of comments and posts about the Hugging Face incident and I don’t recall a single one characterizing this as cute or funny, other than you.
What do you even mean collectively? Do you believe in climate change? That's your answer.
No I think we all pretty much know we’re screwed, including governments. But what are you gonna do? Pandora’s box is now open. Good luck closing it.
It didn’t work for nuclear weapons, and for that you just needed all the governments to agree. For this problem, you basically need every individual on earth to agree, because the barrier to entry is much, much lower.