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> These are false flag operations. The level of "I need to be the smartest person in the room" bullheaded skepticism on Hacker News has always been bad, but no
by Analemma_ 3mo ago
> These are false flag operations.
The level of "I need to be the smartest person in the room" bullheaded skepticism on Hacker News has always been bad, but now with these latest LLM developments it is just completely out of control. A company is reporting an intrusion and how they plan to address the vulnerabilities it exposed in the future, and you're here going "seems shopped, I can tell from the pixels".
- docapotamus 3mo agoI don't think that's what is being said. False flag, I presume in this scenario is to say were going to do something about the impending "AI threat" and to be associated with it. There is probably little threat, but to some investors this starts to look like perceived "AGI". Getting your name involved in the hype is marketing 101
- calebkaiser 3mo agoI think the commenter is saying that OpenAI committed a false flag operation, not Tailscale. For Tailscale, this may very well be marketing, but it would be strangely self defeating for OpenAI to do something like what is being suggested. Showing that you failed to govern your model is a pretty poor way to say "We're the only ones who should be trusted to govern frontier models".
- sscaryterry 3mo agoThis. It isn't only OpenAI, but Anthropic too now. They're normalising bad governance, acting with impunity. Honestly, this is a crime in the UK, and I'm sure a number of other places globally.
- sscaryterry 3mo agoMaybe because I can spot the pixels, I can possibly see in 8K?
- jibal 3mo agoProfoundly stupid people like that are everywhere, not just HN.
- sscaryterry 3mo agoIndeed, people like you, who gulp up reports by big tech companies without any evidence. The stupidity lies in not accepting that everyone has an agenda.