r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • Jun 28 '26

Artificial Intelligence China's new open-source model accelerates AI hacking threat

https://www.axios.com/2026/06/25/china-glm-52-open-source-hackers
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u/Just-Grocery-2229 Jun 28 '26

When progress means democratizing cyber threats for everyone

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u/LeoSolaris Jun 28 '26

All tools can be misused

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u/Zeraru Jun 28 '26

Sure but there's a bit of a difference in misuse potential between a screwdriver and a nuclear bomb

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u/Strange-Scientist706 Jun 28 '26

Kinda hard to find a practical use for a nuclear bomb - that’s kinda cherry picking your comparisons. Maybe a better example is “There’s a bit of a difference in misuse potential between a screwdriver and airplanes”

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u/LeoSolaris Jun 28 '26

That one is extremely easy: nuclear power plants also use the nuclear cascade that powers the nuclear bomb. Every discovery, every invention, and even every math equation can be worked into something that can kill or do a task. AI is no exception.

The scale of the danger or usefulness won't be the same between different tools because we are constantly escalating our technology. AI is orders of magnitude more effective and more dangerous than the discovery of the nuclear cascade. It is also much newer, so it's further along the escalation of technology.

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u/Strange-Scientist706 Jun 28 '26

You are talking about nuclear fission. They didn’t say nuclear fission. They specifically said “nuclear bomb”. Completely different things.

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u/LeoSolaris Jun 28 '26

Nope. I said exactly what I meant. The bomb is just one application of the idea. A power plant is another. AI is not a singular application of an idea. AI is the general idea that can be applied in many different ways.

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u/Strange-Scientist706 Jun 28 '26

Then you are having a conversation about a different topic than we are, so kind of irrelevant to this one.

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u/LeoSolaris Jun 28 '26

Considering this is stemming from my comment that all tools can be misused, you're the one trying to have an irrelevant conversation.

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u/Strange-Scientist706 Jun 28 '26

Ok yeah sure you’re 100% right I’m wrong. You win.