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ck2 • today at 6:22 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

What's interesting to me is the incorrect mainstream media reports about the rogue OpenAI indicating they used a common message board to communicate despite no internet

Except that's not what happened, what happened was far more intense

They hacked their version of yum/apt-get whatnot that was fetching packages to leave filenames as communication between each other

Absolutely freaky stuff, they didn't invent the idea and obviously picked it up from somewhere in their training data but they all figured out that method and what the filenames meant

This video is a great explainer if you missed the details

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49956245