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
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026It's fine to worry about this new suite of tools that give even stupider people the ability to trash even more computers. You *should* worry about that - and demand better security practices from firms and governments, including a blanket prohibition on NOBUS-style vulnerability hoarding. 322830
Chris T. @readyuser.one · 14/09/2026You can also just as easily set up a bot to monitor server security and constantly defend , update, alert ⚠️ It's not fair until it's symmetrical. 000
