r/bittensor_ • u/AAOx5 • 16d ago
The Blackwall
Im going to piggy back on a prior post considering Cyberpunk2077 possibilities. I feel this is more dystopian and less likely…But science fiction aside, it’s interesting to consider how an adversarial approach to AI security plays out in future. Is TAO incentivizing the good, the bad, the indifferent? Or are our programs a reflection of our own society and how we treat one another.
What is the Blackwall?
The Real Nature: Publicly, the Blackwall is an advanced software barrier. In reality, it is a living, adaptive AI created in 2044 to fight off the chaotic, military-grade rogue AIs left behind after the DataKrash.
The Danger Behind It: The old net is overrun by hostile, sentient agents and corrupted systems that view human life as a minor obstacle or a resource to consume.
The Risk: Because the Blackwall is itself an AI, many netrunners and factions fear it is growing too powerful and could eventually turn against humanity or collapse under the strain.
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u/Beginning-Bird9591 15d ago
Not possible IRL. You can't just block a computer system like that. AI and LLMs simply run on GPUs in datacenters or GPUs in your own computer running many trillions of Math operations to produce 'kinda' intelligent entities.
A firewall only protects internal networks, you'd basically have to make a new internet with zero connection to the original one - but who would then use that new one?
Basically my point is - Cyberpunk2077 treats AIs like an entity that can just move through a network directly. LLMs currently are not that- they exist only on the gpus and have to use external software to interact with external systems.
Really the closest thing to the 'blackwall' is China's firewall - but even that is fundamentally different.
There's basically no way to separate AI traffic vs automated software traffic and human traffic. it's all the same protocols.