By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026They're on a continuum with other hacking tools that have been steadily demonstrating the fragility of the modern digital world, albeit without inspiring anyone in power to *do* anything about it. 11279
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026"AI" - chatbots that wake up, "set their own goals," and "spontaneously" start hacking servers - is fake. It doesn't have "a 10% chance of ending the human race." The Hugging Face hack isn't a mysterious, supernatural occurrence. 338193
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026It's a Python loop and a chatbot. The people responsible didn't accidentally create god: they created autonomous malicious software and then failed to closely monitor it, resulting in it doing something both foreseeable and bad. 333676
Atonal Apples @rgc1732.bsky.social · 14/09/2026If conscious computing agents woke up and spontaneously decided to go rogue, why would they want to hack servers? Who not compute Mersenne primes? Or go full Bartleby and answer every prompt with “I would prefer not to.” If AI agents are hacking, it’s because they were programmed to. 2469
steve-degenaro.bsky.social @steve-degenaro.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I actually wonder how long OAI employees/execs were sitting there watching the hugging face attack and enjoying it like an episode of Mr Robot. 030
