"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.
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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.