All the armchair cybersec experts claiming they "obviously" should have airgapped are the ones being absurd. Especially in the same breath as claiming the models apparently aren't intelligent enough to warrant such concern.
People execute, study, develop, and test literal malware of every caliber everyday without issues. Yes the way they do it is requires care and in restricted settings. Yes it costs money and takes time to do that. Yes the people who do it are required and expected to do that.
Oai and anthropic are more or less run by clowns who intend to profiteer off of regulatory capture and who knows maybe directly from the harm their technologies can cause.Because of these takes we have to wait while they try to expand their verticals into the pain and suffering industries. Palantir is already pitching smoking cigarettes so there's that.
The point here is: they didn't even try.
They could have easily temporarily cut off the segment that this was running on, or restricted and monitored its egress to the point that a hacking attempt on an outside party would have been detected.
The point here is (again): they didn't even try.
So yes, they obviously should have either done that or they should have not run their experiment given that they are claiming that the models are intelligent enough warrant such concern. In fact they post one article after another about how much smaller and less capable models are intelligent enough to warrant such concern and in fact warrant regulating this domain to the point that only they are able to own and operate this stuff.
Let's make a biology analogy: if you can't safely operate with harmful substances that doesn't give you a license to do so in an unsafe way. Then you just don't do it.
I find it hilarious that you'd balk at doing work to secure a network. Even funnier for a company that's supposedly solved white collar labor.
And I don't know how you expect an LLM to do airgapped data transfers. The fact that you even bring that up makes me think you don't actually understand what airgapping entails.
Depending on the risks associated, the complexity and effort of certain containment measures would also not neccessarily be something that could be used to brush them aside.
I don't think it is too much to ask that they devote their resources to creating an air gaped campus for testing. If they need to build an entire data center campus with copies of the pilfered data they used to train the damn things, then so be it. HF and other incidents have proven that trying to block models off by software networking is a dangerous game when they can just exploit some unknown flaw in a library nobody knew about for over 40 years.
I'm sorry was this meant to be a defense of Anthropic? The company claiming A.I. is an threat to the human race and only they can be trusted with it?
Like a castle with a moat. If the thing gets attacked you can’t say “we had a moat!” if the drawbridge is down.