Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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“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.

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
    72·
    4 days ago

    AIs exist since the first Chesscomputer, not a fake, it’s only an algorrithm (if - than), nothing to do with intelligence. Other thing are LLMs which are dangerous because biased by large corporations (and govs) in own benefit, certainly capable to cause hacks and damages with a lot of robbed information behind which need to be controlled before it’s late.

    • Tehdastehdas@piefed.socialEnglish
      27·
      3 days ago

      it’s only an algorithm (if - then), nothing to do with intelligence

      Human brains are made of simple chemical reactions, easily simulated by simple algorithms.

      • Zerush@lemmy.ml
        11·
        3 days ago

        Well, some human brains, same as one of an fly or vermin, certainly can be simulated by an algorrithm, but normally not the one of normal people.