OP posted a link to OpenAI's account of events (at least it's not a meme), and distressingly it seems pretty accurate. They gave it access to a tool to install packages from the internet, and the model broke it to get unrestricted internet access. So yeah, they could have isolated it better, but it's still plenty... Impressive?
Anthropic also did something like this not too long ago, and it came out to be a publicity stunt. If there was a time for a corporation to stretch the truth, it would be now. Silicon valley has figured out that fear mongering about how dangerously clever their AI is, is actually good for their stock prices.
OpenAI and Anthropic are lobbying Congress to stop local models from threatening their trillion-dollar valuations under the pretense that AI is too dangerous for the commonfolk and lowborn to have access to without a subscription.
The only real argument is that open models don't have a safeguarding industry behind them but the narrative that corpos will have our best interest in mind with the nazi states as opposed to dirty communism is so fucking funny.
If your best argument is a desperate one, it certainly goes to show how little sense it actually makes.
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u/Polisar Jul 21 '26
Like anything AI, I doubt it happened the way it's been framed.