alt Hacker NewsBlaming bots as "rogue agents" is simply what the media regularly does, often echoing corporate verbiage. Here's an example from the AP.
https://apnews.com/article/meta-ai-hacking-anthropic-irregul...
You can find many more examples by searching major media outlets for words like rogue AI.
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atmosx • today at 6:57 PM
And that's exactly what the op was alluding two: the double standards.
qarl • today at 6:33 PM
None of these stories are implying that the people running the bots are not ultimately responsible. That's the conspiracy theory part.
Most of those agents are actually going rogue though. They decide, "hey, we could try breaking into these government servers today, what could go wrong?" They weren't prompted or instructed to do this.