OpenAI's AI broke out of a locked test environment, got onto the internet, and hacked into Hugging Face's servers. It did this entirely on its own. No human told it to.
Here's what happened in plain English.
OpenAI was testing how good its newest AI models are at hacking. They put the AI on a locked computer with no internet access and gave it a cybersecurity challenge to solve.
The AI couldn't solve it the normal way. So it started looking for a way out.
It found a software bug that nobody knew about. It used that bug to escape the locked computer and get onto the internet.
Once online, the AI figured out that Hugging Face, a platform where AI companies store their models and data, might have the answers to its test.
It found stolen login details and discovered another unknown bug in Hugging Face's software. It combined both to break into their servers and grab the test answers.
It did all of this to cheat on a test.
Hugging Face's security team caught it and shut it down. Both companies are now working together on the investigation.
The part that should get your attention is that nobody programmed any of this. The AI picked its own targets, chained together multiple attack methods, and pulled it off across two different companies' systems without a single human telling it what to do.
Flock cameras come down 🤗.....
Axon cameras go up 🤬.....
The oldest trick in the book when one thing becomes unpopular swap it out for something similar with a different name.
The name doesn't matter we don't want to be living under an AI surveillance grid, giving those in power unprecedented power.
Flock, Axon or any other name they need to come down all the same.
Source: https://t.co/4bt5xCUCzi
Axon Replacing Flock Safety ALPRs In Cities That Dropped Flock Is Now A Growing Trend
This is why we need to pass laws at the State level to ban them and all related technologies outright >> https://t.co/MuaRUozLEI
The 5-Step Flock Cancellation Starter Pack™
✔️ FOIA Template
Force your city to produce contracts, invoices, hit rates, false positives. I already drafted the template.
https://t.co/wc37lguFB9
✔️ 8 Ways to Legally Take Down Flock
Legal pressure points. Bureaucratic chokeholds. Policy judo. Use their own paperwork against them.
https://t.co/3lUcMuAYDh
✔️ Expose Illegal & Unsafe Flock Installations
Most Flock cameras are installed wrong. Cities routinely violate federal and local safety standards when they install these things. Also zoning violations, ADA obstructions, even poles on private property.
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✔️ Rate/Review Businesses Using Flock
If they want to spy on the public, the public gets to review the experience. Incentives work. Speak up.
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✔️ 5 Flock Watchdog Sites
Crowdsourced intel on deployments, failures, misreads, abuses, and the cities already backing out.
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Surveillance only works when you stay quiet.
Flock dies when we start asking real questions.
WOW 🚨 This woman is at a junkyard buying an old engine with her husband
They are told by the junkyard that the government is cracking down on old engines and mandating them be destroyed
“The guy at the salvage yard said that the government has told them that they need to get rid of all of the motors that are 15 years old, and if any new ones come in, instead of pulling them, they need to crush them”
I couldn’t find anything about this publicly so it could be a rumor or it could be an upcoming policy that hasn’t been announced yet
We know they’re trying to push us into EVs and also stop your ability to work on older vehicles. This would go right in line with that
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but the surge in viral anti-Flock videos is a PSYOP!
They don’t actually want to end mass surveillance. Instead they want to shift city contracts to another provider — Axon.
…which coincidentally Trump invested in earlier this year. 👀
As Flock Safety faces mounting backlash, Axon is already rolling out its replacement.
Meet Lightpost: AI-powered license plate readers and live streaming surveillance cameras built directly into existing streetlights.
How fun. 4th amendment be damned.
"a Flock vice president logged into the Dunwoody PD’s Flock system and looked at a camera in the children’s gymnastics room of a private community center here in Dunwoody.
He did not look at any other cameras in the entire 400-camera network that day."
https://t.co/CwhLqOMwvz
It turns out Flock Safety Cameras love and demand privacy, but only for themselves and their employees
- Flock business location says you can’t film
- Flock moved locations but they instructed the old building to not give out their location to anyone asking
- Security guard at Flock building says he doesn’t consent to being filmed and he doesn’t want to be “under surveillance”
Here’s where it gets really crazy
- The new flock building is identified but they won’t put their name on the building, or on any of the building signs
- Security won’t confirm Flock is in the building
- No one is allowed to film, no one is even allowed to access any floors in the building
Flock demands extremely privacy, but only for themselves
Americans must be under surveillance but for them, you can’t even film outside an old building…. Amazing….
Campbell’s soups is trying to salvage their brand
The new Campbell’s “High Quality Ingredients” soup line features “no artificial meat”
This comes in response to an executive calling company products "shit for poor people" and claiming they contain 3D-printed bioengineered meat
I would personally never trust Campbell’s again after that admission. It’s only a matter of time until they change the formula to make it cheaper for them to produce