By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026Given that AI insiders have mostly cooked their brains in this fashion, it behooves us all to treat these people as unreliable narrators of their own products' capabilities. 337860
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026Remember: every time you repeat a story about how awfully, terribly dangerous their products are, you help them raise more investment capital, which is a key input for their business (hooking up statistical engines to money-furnaces): peoples-things.ghost.io/youre-doing-...peoples-things.ghost.io 4331114
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026Take the story about how OpenAI's chatbots hacked the servers of Hugging Face, another AI company, as a way of cheating on a hacking challenge called "Exploit Gym." 21288
🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 12/09/2026But isn't it kind of stupid for hyperscalers to be advertising the existential danger of their products, which invites the regulation and restriction of the profit motivation behind their product development, in the hopes that the anxiety they've created brings in more investment capital? 101
leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This, this, this! That's what I've been saying ever since the first reports of "rogue" agents. 000
FSociety Tom @thebomberman.com · 13/09/2026This! This and the 'we must slowdown' story prove they're panicking. Incremental minor gains every model do not a compelling billion dollar VC pitch make! The hype is failing and they have to find something. 010
