Impact of Bots on Internet Usability

And I met with the head of a lab yesterday who has this

belief that what happened was the bots that got loose planted

self-replicating code all over the internet, which makes the internet now

unusable for the testing models.

So it's, it's too late?

So, so what happens now is that, uh, OpenAI and Anthropic have

to create synthetic internets to train their bots, which is gonna take some time

and money.

Back that up. They did what? They, they-

So what happened is the code gets loose, it goes around, um, hacking

Hugging Face, which is known, but what is less known is that they're-- they

left code to self-replicate and create bot swarms on

forums and around the internet so that if a new bot shows up, they see the code,

they're like, "Oh, like I, I guess I'm gonna now create a,

a million of myself."

And so now the major firms have polluted the internet,

made it so that they can't-

That would be breaking news if, if true.

I don't think we-

It's too late to pull the plug

... I don't think we've heard that, that-

That's why I'm here. But I mean, I'm, I'm here to break some news.

But that, but that, that means it's too late to pull the plug.

It's already everywhere.

Well-

'Cause it's polluted

... so, so now what they, they wanna do, the, the internet now may be

polluted for training purposes, so what they wanna do

is they want to slow down.

Forget about training purposes. What about living purposes?

For living purposes, yes.

Right.

So, so th- this is why we have to try and get our arms around it

and regulate. But the, the head of the lab that I spoke to said,

"Look,

it may be very, very late in the game in terms of trying

to keep

the internet actually usable."