I'm growing increasingly skeptical that these are actually rogue. Valuations are all about hype, posturing, and perception. Having the most dangerous AI in the world boosts your valuation. Just like I was skeptical of Mythos and Fable being "banned", I'm skeptical of these hacking sprees being entirely rogue. At best, they are the result of engineers turning a blind eye to "see what happens".

If this were a staged showcase of model capabilities they would have picked a more impressive target than a regional university digital library

It's a balancing act between showing capability and attracting legal issues. If you were a 1337 teen hacker in the 90s and wanted to show off without getting in serious trouble, a school or library would've been a good choice too.

We need a new one: "Where someone is using a vibe-coded internal tool made by the creative department that keeps needing bug fixes, there's a start up waiting to happen."

This project is not clever, interesting, insightful, or beneficial to humanity in any way, save to remind us of what world we are slowly creating by our continued insistence that AI is a good thing.

Exactly. People are getting so excited that all this stuff is possible, and forgetting that we are burning through innumerable finite resources just to prove something is possible.

They were too concerned with whether or not they could, they never stopped to think if they should.

I can't believe that in the face of all the other problems facing humanity, we are allowing any amount of resources to be spent on this. I cannot even see this justifiable under the guise of entertainment. It is beneath our human dignity to read this slop, and to continue tolerating these kinds of projects as "innovation" or "pushing the AI frontier" is disingenuous at best, and existentially fatal at worst.

yup...so sad. And we seem to be the 'unpopular opinion' these days..

This is really cringe

It really, really is. The fact people here are taking this seriously is an indictment of this space. There is nothing meaningful here.

Do they have microphones inside the car? How do you know? That "feeling" of privacy probably encourages people to talk more openly, which if there are microphones inside...

Yes, they do. I know because they’re disclosed, and how they’re used is disclosed. (They’re disabled unless you call support.)

they are disabled by default unless you call support etc.

Im also coming to the conclusion that video game consoles (and smartphones, and ipads,...) are not for children.

The phrase "dog whistle" is also itself a dog whistle that signals where you stand on discussing particular issues in the open.

Only someone trying to silence any dissent to their position would use platitudes like this rather than addressing why the OP mentioned antisemitism out of nowhere.