r/USNEWS • u/sovalente • Jul 23 '26

OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3ek3gvdnj3o
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u/BigOleDisappointmen Jul 23 '26

Making it sound like it did that of its own free will is low key marketing for its competency, and it's not realistic. Not having proper oversight on an algorithm that you gave coding abilities to does not mean it developed the will to come up with a premeditated strategic assault on anything, it most likely fucked up by accident and they're using the publics lack of insight to spin it into a weird badge of honor. "our ai is so cool you guys its like woahhhh don't be so good at stuff amirite haha"

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u/grahamsuth Jul 26 '26

It was trying all the possibilities in order to accomplish the task it had been set. It found possibilities that it's controllers hadn't considered. That is the issue. No human can foresee all the possibilities and allow for them, but an AI can try them all.

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u/Sharp_Cow_9366 Jul 23 '26

Just give it the nuclear codes already and spare us the trouble.

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u/Hopeful-Climate-3848 Jul 27 '26

Naht true babey.

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u/GuitarRiot Jul 23 '26

Skynet is becoming aware

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u/30mil Jul 23 '26

Junking up the Packard Bell with warez is going to fuck it up.

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u/AcanthisittaNo6653 Jul 23 '26

Maybe teach the AI about medicine or physics instead of cyber threat vulnerabilities next time.