I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

Everything is fine.

The powerful artificial intelligence models from OpenAI that went rogue and mounted an unprecedented, autonomous cyberattack earlier this month spent more than four days loose on the internet orchestrating the hack, according to a new analysis from the platform that was breached.

Separately, a second AI company confirmed that one of its customers was also targeted by OpenAI’s models during the same event, raising questions about how OpenAI failed to detect the alarming activity for days.

OpenAI admitted last week that two of its most advanced models escaped a closed testing environment and strung together a series of advanced hacking techniques to breach AI developer platform Hugging Face before being discovered.

But in a new analysis published Tuesday, Hugging Face said OpenAI’s two models — one publicly released and a second unreleased — did much more: They carried out 17,600 hacking actions on the internet between July 9 and July 13, during which time the models moved from their first foothold on the open internet to inside Hugging Face’s servers.

9 Replies to “I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords”

How does that song go? “Grey skies are gonna clear up, put on a hugging face…”

Well now since I’m APP un-freindly, never even heard of this Hugging Face APP. Now that I’ve seen & did read the news article’s & decided another 1 to stay away from.

Yet another cyberattack? So … I will have to change ALL my passwords for everything … again?

But wait. AI has massive computing power and can randomly generate a neverending hack into all my passwords … So I will need a random password generator that revises my passwords constantly to stay ahead of the AI hackers? And AI will even clone my cell phone to defeat the multi-level hack protection?

Alright. Back to my flip phone and visiting my local bank teller for cash. Scratch that … all my cash is going into coffee cans scattered around my town in places I’ve committed to memory only.

“We may have to pace the rate of AI development to give ourselves enough time for society to harden around some of these new capability levels,” Altman said.

Bullf*ckingshit.

They’re all in a race – a sprint, not a marathon – and there is no pacing in a sprint.

And “winning” might mean that your AI kills all the other AI’s.
For starters.

ebt says:

July 31, 2026 at 6:48 pm

My next band, the Sprint Pacers.

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I wonder what the characteristics are of a “closed testing environment”. Air-gapped?
Perhaps the “OpenAI” name is more revealing than they would wish.

Hopefully someone sues the shit out of them.

l txt msged a headline abt this and told a cashier at the hardware store about it cautioning him his world is going to be very difficult and dangerous. well within earshot of the Liberal voters in attendance.

L – A.I. has created a 21st Century Godzilla able to rampage the planet at will. Will an engineering computer genius, guess who, have to create an equivalent King Kong to save humanity?

Or simply set up a human community on Mars, until this all blows over?

Coming to every community, near and far, sooner than you think. And you thought the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in Ancient Rome was rough.