‘Much has been made of the OpenAI chatbots' dialog during the Hugging Face incident. No wonder: it reads like a rejected script for a reboot of the movie "Hackers." But that's not because the chatbots are waking up and applying to join the Cult of the Dead Cow: it's because they were trained on a corpus of chat transcripts from excitable young people who love to fantasize about starring in a reboot of the movie "Hackers"’
Thanks to Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs) for explaining this.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/god-in-the-box/#llms-are-fake
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