“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. It’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.

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    3 days ago

    It’s super annoying that there are people that will only come around on this absolutely obvious statement because Mr. Internet Man said something about it.

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        1 day ago

        Barely. If this is their turning point after years of others saying the same thing, they’re just as likely to change their minds back when they hear someone else they like.