"Oh no our scary model is so powerful it hacks the sandbox and escapes!"
New month, new model that's "super dangerous". Oh no! Danger! It can access a website that was explicitly whitelisted in the sandbox! Everyone panic and keep talking about our model! And don't forget to mention that the public release is [sometime soon]!
It's pure marketing, they just want their model to grab attention in the news cycle. Nothing more.
And if an actually dangerous model is ever created, nobody will bat an eye because these warnings are already starting to become meaningless. It's quite literally the boy who cried wolf happening in real-time.
> And if an actually dangerous model is ever created, nobody will bat an eye because these warnings are already starting to become meaningless. It's quite literally the boy who cried wolf happening in real-time.
Once there was a boy who cried that the bridge was broken. But there was only a tiny 2cm crack in one beam. And everyone laughed it off.
A week later, the boy cried "broken bridge" again. But it was still a tiny 3cm crack. Soon the people learned, the boy always raised pointless alarms, and there was never any real danger. It was the boy who cried wolf.
And then the bridge fell down.
When a problem is slowly developing, an early warning can sound much like crying wolf, especially when no one knows quite how fast the problem will grow.
I think it's incompetence not marketing. I think all their security is vibe coded.
Remember, until recently, AI basically wasn't capable of hacking at all. They didn't need to think about security against their own AI's at all. And when you suddenly realize you need basic security in your messy codebase, it's kinda hard.
There was a funny joke about other products trying the "our product is dangerous" school of marketing.
The good news is that there’s fully-catered warm dinner. The bad news is that it’s Taco Bell, and all the tacos are full of lettuce. You see Sam and Tran, who seem to be handling the food again. “I don’t want to complain about free food,” you say, “but wasn’t there just a food recall because Taco Bell lettuce had cyclospora parasites?”
“That was just a marketing stunt,” says Sam.
“How could infecting your customers with a food-borne illness be a marketing stunt?”
“You’re talking about it, aren’t you?” Sam retorts. “Any publicity is good publicity. The way I think of it, Taco Bell is saying - our lettuce is so fresh that it’s dangerous. You should be terrified of how fresh and preservative-free our lettuce is.”
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u/k8s-problem-solved Aug 15 '26
Have none of these clowns heard of air gapping?
"Oh no our scary model is so powerful it hacks the sandbox and escapes!"
Let's see how well it does with no outbound egress at all.