alt Hacker NewsYeah, I don't get it. Are they imagining this happening just with the open weights models running on however many GPUs the bad actors can cobble together?
For now, all the scary hacking things still require an API key to one of the LLM providers. Surely they should take some responsibility for how to turn off the tap.
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shepherdjerred • today at 4:23 PM
it’s two-fold. Either malicious actors or the AI systems themselves.
Hugging Face showed that AI can do serious hacking without really being told to. If a model had its own motivations there could be real damage.
Currently Qwen3.8 27B is roughly on Opus 4.6 level. In at most a year given the current pace, you could probably run such hacking bot nets out of a reasonably small local server, bootstrapping by hacking or acquiring login credentials for more compute.