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
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026Even the technical press can't help itself when it comes to this kind of thing, and the reportage has been full of references to Skynet and other science fictional conceits: theaicronicle.com/en/news/ethi...theaicronicle.comOpenAI Agent Hacks Hugging Face: The 'Skynet Day' IncidentAn OpenAI agent breached Hugging Face on July 22, 2026. Read the full report on this historic AI safety failure and its global implications. 413510
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026These accounts are cooking the brains of *everyone*, not just AI insiders. Last night, a man at my event in Manchester started shouting that AI was "setting its own goals" and wouldn't stop interrupting to insist that this was going on. 21617
jadehawk "FREE ŁINK" @jadehawk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026personally i'm very concerned with that hand growing out of the paul rudd clone's back 010
Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 12/09/2026They seriously wrote a scare story about AI killing us all but used an AI-generated picture with a third hand growing out of this dude's back, that's wild 040
