Regardless of what actually happened, the company openly and proudly admitted to committing a crime. Company needs to be shut down, people making decisions need to be arrested, and we need to use civil asset forfeiture to take every fucking thing they have just like we do to everyday regular people who break the law.
this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2026
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Yeah, imagine if you let your gasoline powered lawnmover just run around in your yard just to see what would happen and you just left it for a couple of days in the anticipation that eventually your entire lawn was cut only to find that it also ran over some kid. The lesson from that wouldn't be that your lawnmover is just too good.
The entire huggingface thing infuriates me because it was basically negligent incompetence that they try to use as marketing.
Edit: also it hallucinated and justified its hallucination. It's clear example of why agentic AI is a bad idea. It's not "oh this tech is soooo powerfull".
Like what the fuck are the odds that, of the billion or so websites on the internet, your "rogue agent" "accidentally" hacks an AI repository?
Yeah, that might have been the goal, but they can't state that publicly. Instead "we just didn't pay attention to what it was doing and let it spend thousands of dollars of compute that ended up in a crime". That's not the defense that they think it is.
you can't call something that can be stopped with a ctrl+c an AI gone rogue
Kinda off topic but I stopped listening to Better Offline on Spotify because it's by far the most ad saturated podcast there (edit: of those I listen to).