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"dangerously-skip-permissions" gets more dangerous every day. Not because the models are dumber, but because the attackers are smarter. These things browse the Internet, where they can freely bump into prompt injection.
Restricting the frontier models is only bringing disadvantages to the good guys. Attackers have uncensored models, custom fine-tunes, and other specialized offensive tooling. These "safegaurds" are only ensuring people stay vulnerable.
David Vorick retweeted
UPDATE: I can confirm that the Ledger supply chain is compromised in Europe as well. @Ledger should initiate an immediate product recall to protect users.
I just purchased a second device from a different Mediamarkt location today, recorded the unboxing process, and discovered spyware once again (video linked in the second tweet).
The device was compromised in the exact same manner, featuring identical modifications (such as additional cables and an LTE module). This indicates its a widespread issue rather than an isolated incident, potentially affecting Ledger inventory across MediaMarkt and Saturn stores throughout Europe (comprising over 1,000 stores across 11 countries).
My initial hypothesis was that these devices were returns that looked unopened to the employees and were just sold again as new however, a MediaMarkt employee confirmed that the device I purchased was not a return, and that returned Ledgers are sent directly back to the manufacturer rather than resold.
Store records show the inventory originated from Aqipa GmbH. While Ledger's CTO was unsure if Aqipa serves as the direct distributor between Ledger and MediaMarkt, it appears to be the case. Given that Aqipa distributes across Europe, any physical retail store receiving stock through them may be at risk.
I sent the first ledger to mark and the second one is going to ledger now, so that they can analyse it.
If you purchased a ledger from anyone other than the official ledger store, make sure to check your device!!
I have found GPT 6.1 to be considerably worse at following instructions than 5.6, to the point that it feels almost unusable by comparison. It loves doing it's own thing, and politely ignoring whatever guidance you give it.
"Ah, but there's actually this secret, unsupported feature that allows us to do something clever"
No GPT, don't use secret unsupported features in production code. How is that even a consideration?
I don't understand all the Gemini hate, I still find 3.1 Pro to be strongly preferable to Sol/Astra/etc for a large number of tasks. It's a good model if you know how to prompt it.
All of this focus on 'escaping the sandbox' seems so misplaced to me. Our smartest agents will always be hooked up to the Internet. Intelligence permanently escaped the sandbox the day ChatGPT was first released.
Glow remains committed to avoiding the rat race. Memes, "distribution", and the standard token playbook are exactly why the crypto industry is the dumpster fire that it is.
Glow will build real value. That's how it's going to win.
It is amusing to me that the only high profile examples of "misaligned" agents come from the big labs themselves. None of the uncensored models seem to actually be doing any harm... to the contrary, they have been essential in creating secure software in the past 6 months.
AI will not eliminate jobs because the number of solvable problems is growing faster than the number of solved problems.
Solar is a superior national security infrastructure. It's easy to disable an entire city if the electricity comes from a single power plant. It's much harder if every building has its own independent supply of electricity.
Solar is improving faster than it is being deployed. This means that, in addition to the industry itself growing, the amount of green-field opportunity is also growing.
David Vorick retweeted
Just to be clear about where we are with open source code these days. In 2026, developers are asking COURTS for permission to publish software. Asking for protection from future prosecution, and still not getting it.
@LewellenMichael is doing exactly that. After watching Roman Storm v. USA, he does not feel safe shipping his code.
Case: courtlistener.com/docket/695…
5th Circuit Appeal: dockets.justia.com/docket/ci…
David Vorick retweeted
Right. Dario was already claiming that GPT2 was too dangerous to open source back in 2019.
I made fun of them then.
Everyone should make fun of them now.
One thing to keep in mind about EA folks is that they have never been above lying to achieve their goals. See, for example, Sam Bankman-Fried. When you believe that you wield the power to save humanity, a lot of dishonest action feels justified.
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Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.
You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement.
I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible.
But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier.
Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want.
Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well.
So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it.
If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.