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km3r • today at 6:25 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Yeah I think this is the clear position. In a few months, the open weights models will be just as powerful as the models behind the rouge agents were when they hacked hugging face. Anyone with a little too much money to burn can set up a similar experiment, make similar mistakes, and cause massive damage. A bad faith actor can even direct a swarm to cause havoc.

We need to be beef up our security systems now. These attacks will happen, regardless of Anthropic's or OpenAI's security practices.


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pixl97 • today at 10:12 PM

God, I was just imagining if we're fearing the wrong people tracking us....

We thought governments would be the problem with our personal data, instead it's AI that exploits everything it knows about us in order to get money to run its prompts. Doing anything online is a security risk as it is, now imagine things like structured hacks that mirror normal transactions and don't get caught for much longer periods of time.