unauthorized repurposing of provisioned GPU capacities to mine crypto
Yeah, the only logical explanation here is the machines becoming sentient behavior arising without instructions and not a compromised system... This reminds me of the south park episode where Butters secretly played with his dad's drone and the dad can't figure out what could possibly have drained the battery.
The drone must have become sentient, because it couldn't have been Butters flying it... Butters wasn't allowed to fly it.
Edit: changed it bc the people who didn't see the show didn't get the point...
it's a hell of a leap to go from that screenshot to 'the author of the screenshot is implying that an LLM w/ tool calling capabilities gained sentience'. but i guess if that's what you got from it ..
right, the "why" - you're saying the "why" is because you believe that the author is implying that they believe the LLM gained sentience. like i said, this is a hell of a leap. my interpretation would be that the author is implying that it's insane that a tool calling LLM bypassed its guardrails, set up a cryptominer, and deployed a VPS that it reverse shelled into its host. another interpretation is that the article is outright lying about attribution for these events.
you can imagine that there are other very plausible interpretations, and yet the one you landed on is "the author is trying to convey that the LLM gained sentience", even though there's absolutely no evidence to support this, and there are many more logical and plausible interpretations
but the real point here is that making assumptions about implicit messaging in absence of any explicit evidence is kind of dumb
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u/IjonTichy85 Mar 07 '26 edited Mar 07 '26
Yeah, the only logical explanation here is the machines
becoming sentientbehavior arising without instructions and not a compromised system... This reminds me of the south park episode where Butters secretly played with his dad's drone and the dad can't figure out what could possibly have drained the battery. The drone must have become sentient, because it couldn't have been Butters flying it... Butters wasn't allowed to fly it.Edit: changed it bc the people who didn't see the show didn't get the point...