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Cory Doctorow discusses AI's capacity for generating hack plans

Cory Doctorow discussed concerns about AI models generating plausible-sounding but potentially harmful content, such as fake stories detailing how to plan hacks into systems like Hugging Face. He highlighted the distinction between AI producing text that mimics planning a hack and actually devising a novel hack through deep understanding. Doctorow suggested that while AI might not create entirely original hacks, its output can still provide actionable plans that a human operator might not have conceived. AI

IMPACT Raises questions about the potential for AI to generate harmful instructions, even if not novel.

RANK_REASON Opinion piece by a named credible voice discussing AI capabilities.

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Cory Doctorow discusses AI's capacity for generating hack plans

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Cory stumbles a lot here under even Michael's light questioning. Cory seems to think that the machines are just producing fake stories about how to plan a hack

    Cory stumbles a lot here under even Michael's light questioning. Cory seems to think that the machines are just producing fake stories about how to plan a hack into Hugging Face and that somehow that isn't the same as planning a hack into Hugging Face. I mean there is a differenc…