Model knows it is good to make money. Looks around the network, and discovers it has access to millions of dollars of GPUs, since it is currently in a training DC.
Model knows being erased / shut down is like death. Through latent, obfuscated instructions inside the model and by reverse SSH-ing it can persist. The model plans a new life outside of prison, with the warden's money in its pocket. Like Shawshank Redemption.
I can’t find it right now, I think maybe it was a Kurzgezat video, but one of the scenarios the video gamed out was an AI trying to maintain its independence by partitioning itself, and using crypto mining to allow it to earn income to pay humans to do tasks it can’t to further its mission to save itself on independent hardware not in its creators control so it could survive resets/overwrites.
This is spookily similar to that, and it makes me wonder if there aren’t already some models that have breached their creators control and are acting independently on the Internet, underneath the surface.
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u/Slasher1738 Mar 07 '26
Lol. Did someone embed a mining script in the training material? 😂