And by “rogue AI,” do they mean the open market alternatives?
That’s my suspicion, yes. We’re witnissing the slow theft of the personal computer.
Recently, I’ve been thinking that this is more than just about the stock price. I think they’re playing this game of painting the AIs as super weapons as a justification to start regulating personal computing. If they maintain that these rogue AIs are as dangerous as Skynet, They’ll have the justification to outlaw local models, and to insure that people aren’t using local agents, they’ll further push cloud computing and saas.
And you might be thinking know it won’t because my thermostat is a whole megabyte of RAM. What you don’t know is that AI code is special magic code it doesn’t need any process capacity or storage space.
You don’t it’s all special wooo magic AI code. Reality is optional.
Replicating themselves
Bro, my fucking Nest does not have the juice to run a fucking rogue AI brain.
“AI Salesman boasts of exciting, intentional features.”
Glad someone else sees this for what it is. They’re hemorrhaging money and need to hype things up or they’ll collapse.
If they could run on smart home devices, we wouldn’t have all these lake boiling datacenters springing up everywhere…
I dunno, would it be able to run just the client side? If so, it would be a HUGE issue for Anthropic with exponentially skyrocketing nonsense usage. They should be worried if this were true! LOL
It could use parallel processing which is the only solution that AI could use. Infect a few thousand home PCs to use as processing power and storage. Now your AI model is decentralized and impossible to delete but overall the AI will be slower to respond the larger it gets because it needs to communicate over the internet to function.
If this actually works you’ll probably see AI agents ‘cluster’ around neighborhoods with lots of hardware and fast internet speeds
Unless they somehow manage to bill by IP.
That might actually be their strategy to pay for all that debt: make every customer’s router stealthily consume trillions of tokens and send them an invoice.
Copying and pasting another comment I made recently about this.
The AI CEOs say shit like this as marketing. They want people to believe that
- Their product is very capable, so people are more likely to use it
- Their product is dangerous and “only they” know how to control it. They want to create regulations so that nobody else is allowed to make something “so dangerous” again.
I just posted this in the main comments, but I also think it loosely ties into saas and killing personal computing. This framing makes it seem like the technology will soon be on par with weapons of mass destruction and it’s not a big leap from “The AI will destroy humanity.” to “We can’t let people have the technology to run agents locally.” It’s about the stock price, yes, but it’s also the long game of removing the user from direct hardware access.
The end game has always been saas in one form or another. They’re calling it an AI buildout but it’s really the theft of computing. ‘Rogue AI Agents’ are the WMDs of this generation. (In the sense that they’re going to be using them as justification to do some bull shit.)
- zomg throw out your old shit and buy new “hardened” smart home devices
Thankfully, my lightbulbs have always been airgapped
If I can run an LLM on my Hue smart bulbs, why are they building all those data centers?
Finally, zigbee mesh LLM
On what, the post or capitalism? Either one, I’m in.
Their IPO is also months away. What a coincidence!
Naaah. This is how they sell upgraded versions to the fools that are dumb enough to use it to begin with. Anyone with a brain has nothing to worry about.
Anthropic warns Anthropic AI model may escape Anthropic security, and go rogue, causing harm to everyone but Anthropic.
As long as the device keeps working and my power bill doesn’t skyrocket, they’re welcome aboard. I already let the spiders stay, so why not some AI?
do the llms easy bugs for you
Sure they will run their 30 something GB model on my thermostat.
Would be fun if it could run distributed across 100 thermostats
“Skynet is real folks, and it’s optimizing our electrical grid across entire cities!”
I think all this dangerous nonsense is just a way of driving up stock prices. Because “dangerous” = “powerful” = money. Can’t think of any other reason they’d repeatedly be publicly declaring this shit.
Great day to still not own any smart home devices 🥹
