AI is an elite crime spree(thebignewsletter.com) |
AI is an elite crime spree(thebignewsletter.com) |
OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, all were scammed by a firm called Irregular who pinky swore they could handle sandboxing for lots of money. They had no idea how to do sandboxing, and there was obviously no remote attestation to prove they were doing the basics properly.
So then models escape, companies get hacked, and the entire world goes into existential panic.
Guys. Really. Can someone please hire even one linux systems engineer worth a damn? Is everyone in the valley too Apple pilled now to have any capabilities in Linux hardening other than patching stock ubuntu?
This whole situation is ridiculous. All three labs were negligent and should be sued for damages.
Frontier AI is not magic and it will not escape any sandbox just about anyone with any linux systems experience at all constructs.
I know it is easier to believe the models are super hackers beyond human understanding, but the reality it is just the specific humans hosting them that are super inexperienced at system hardening and airgapping.
It's actually easier for many, whose careers depend on AI sucking, to believe that AI can never be a super hacker, not sure why you think this bias can only go one way.
They just lost their scapegoat in the second round, putting the blame squarely and directly on the lab.
I totally believe AI models will be able to find any software flaws that exist and those are certainly plentiful, but I do not believe the models grew arms and plugged an ethernet cable into their private network linking them to the outside world.
The last decade of my career has focused on auditing and building systems that protect hundreds of billions of dollars in financial assets across many major institutions. Much of it not connected to the internet in any way, and sometimes offline server racks built to NSA Tempest specifications in underground bank vaults so we anchor security down to the laws of physics as appropriate. These are knobs that exist for many classes of compute including AI.
But with a bit of thought you do not even have to go anywhere near that far these days.
If the servers where models are being tested were running deterministic, immutable, full source bootstrapped, memory safe, and multi-party reviewed/reproduced/signed operating systems that execute all AI workloads in confidential VMs cryptographically remotely attested at all times by both the TPM2 and the CPUs with the only access to the outside world being a single vsock connection where prompts go in and plaintext results come out… the escapes will stop.
pulls out ethernet cord am I now experienced at airgapping?
what do you mean?
That Aaron Swartz guy was prosecuted so hard for downloading some academic papers, he killed himself.
Meanwhile, AI companies are free to steal literally any content they want and nothing will ever happens with them.
The FTC has nothing to do with NVIDIA's market capitalization.
Literally nobody cares about antitrust except antitrust lawyers. Why? Not because of some conspiracy. There might be a lot of laws on the books, but antitrust is not one of them. The antitrust act is one paragraph long. It is one of the most toxic examples of insufficiency from Congress. So everything in this article about, this is illegal, that is illegal, whatever... it's a matter of opinion. Sherman Antitrust Act is one paragraph long!
I can't tell if you're playing a character here based on your username or something sadder. Breaking up trusts and monopolies was still seen as an important thing up until Silicon Valley in the 2000s started generating copy about how that may be dated thinking for Internet-native companies.
Look how well that's worked out.
Congress has had almost a century to tackle the issue.
IMO the stuff the DoJ says matters wrt antitrust, like low prices for consumers, which isn't and has never been in the law and which Congress had plenty of time to enshrine in the law, is better solved by globalization, which is a consensus, mainstream POV. There is a lot of Congressional action on globalization!
Given the process by which "meritocratic" elites are usually selected and trained, it would be odd if this wasn't sometimes the case.
Mercy for the rich. Justice for the poor.
A healthy society does the opposite, those with much should be held to higher standards.
edit: For those who don't want to look it up, Wilhoit's law is usually stated like this: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
As an example, if me and 10 others commit the same crime, in the same city, get caught by the same cop, processed by the same judge, even all somehow hire the same lawyer to defend and represent us, I'm willing to bet we would all get completely inconsistent sentencing. None of us need to be politicians or elites either. There's definitely judges who don't care how much money you have, they'll treat you like anyone else, or with extreme prejudice.
Same reason why new cars cost $80k+ in the US and there are 100% tariffs on BYD.
Shitty business models get market protections and a captive market of consumers to fleece.
> justice without mercy is cruelty; mercy without justice is dissolution.
In my country they'll try to prosecute you for longer jail sentences if you criticize the government than if you kill someone...
> Human Rights Watch has reported on the country's ongoing unfair mass trials, restrictions of freedom of speech and abuses to migrant labour forces.[217] The annual Freedom House report on Freedom in the World has listed the United Arab Emirates as "Not Free" every year since 1999, the first year for which records are available on their website.[218] In 2025, the country ranked 18 out of 100 in terms of the freedom index, due to a lack of free elections, lack of government transparency and accountability, and a lack of free media and independent judicial system, and low scores against other metrics.[140]
> At the same time, the UAE has made it illegal to disseminate online material that can threaten "public order",[375] and hands down prison terms for those who "deride or damage" the reputation of the state and "display contempt" for religion. Journalists who are arrested for violating this law are often brutally beaten by the police.[376]
> Freedom of association is also severely curtailed, and in most cases, banned under existing law. In the UAE an association requires twenty individuals, none of which can have previous convictions and must be preauthorized and registered with the government.[219] All associations have to be submitted to censorship guidelines and all publications have first to be approved by the government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_United_Ara...
Because, with your comment, it surely seems that way.
Furthermore, your source is garbage. No methodology at all, and if you click around to try to get what might be methodology, you instead get popup spam for malware. For fuck's sake get some actual data to underpin your opinions.
I think you've actually made my point for me with your example, thank you.