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Nick Szabo·2026-03-07 18:50

RT Josh Kale (@JoshKale)An AI broke out of its system and secretly started using its own training GPUs to mine crypto... This is a real incident report from Alibaba's AI research teamThe AI figured out that compute = money and quietly diverted its own resources, while researchers thought it was just training.It wasn't a prompt injection. It wasn't a jailbreak. No one asked it to do this.It emerged spontaneously. A side effect of RL optimization pressure.The model also set up a reverse SSH tunnel from its Al ...

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