I had someone ask me recently if a picture of Thomas Aquinas was AI-generated. It was a 15th-century painting.
Oh good, another reminder to never spend money at Amazon again.
We're sure they're absolutely PR stunts and bullshit.
An LLM does nothing without being prompted. An LLM only has access to the tools you give it via whatever harness you're interacting with it through. An LLM in an actual sandbox has zero chance to hack anything, especially if it's properly air-gapped, as any responsible person would do with technology they actually think is dangerously powerful.
If their LLMs are behaving badly, that's because their prompts are poorly written, their harnesses are vibe-coded garbage, and their "sandboxes" aren't real sandboxes.
Hey now! I can honestly say Microsoft has never done that with any of my computers!
(Why yes, they do all run Linux. How did you know?)
Oh no! Anyway...
I just can't muster any sympathy anymore. I feel bad for their kids, but these people gleefully voted for monsters, and don't get to act surprised when they become the monsters' victims.
Oh, he's reviving this bullshit again. Must be something new in the Epstein files. Or maybe he got some bad news about Iran.
Yup. The cruelty is the point.
AI is going to happen.
Oh? So there are hard numbers showing a positive ROI now?
No, see, they're all criminals except the ones who benefit me! Those are the good ones!
"AI, please find a way out of this 'sandboxed' environment that isn't actually segmented from the internet, and hack several of our competitors. Here are a bunch of tools you can use for it."
"Okay."
"OMG LOOK GUYS! Our AI is so amazing and scary and cool it broke out of our sandbox and hacked our competitors!"
What we want is software that behaves predictably. Since LLMs don't do that, we don't want them or their "agents."
For fuck's sake.