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Open AI plays down 'rogue' incident


Open AI have denied that the incident in which some of its models went rogue and hacked into Hugging Face, another AI company is in any way a worrying development.


Spokesperson for open AI, Chris Topia, said ' The fact that it was supposed to be a controlled environment but it still managed to go rogue is nothing to worry about' claimed Topia, 'The fact that this was unprecedented means that it will probably never happen again. We believe this to be a once in a lifetime mishap, so we should be OK and you can be assured that, err, all future tests will be in a controlled environment. More controlled, in fact, than this one was. It's nothing to be alarmed about at all. Err, no not at all. Everything is under control. Honest.'


He was later observed paying in cash for large quantities of canned goods, bottled water and ammunition, before fleeing to an unspecified location.


Firms to use brain data surveillance to monitor workers



Companies are showing increasing interest in using brain-monitoring technology (‘neurotech’) to keep track of what their workers are up to.


Trials at a French-owned TotalPrix discount store have already proved the value of the technology, by electrocuting and grassing up staff,


Retail assistants on minimum wage wore a special beanie hat that monitored their brain waves. While the staff were stacking shelves, talking to customers or working at the checkout, there was no discernible brain activity. However, brain activity ‘lit up’ when staff nipped outside for a vape or a quick shag, when they played on-line gambling games, and when they were nicking stuff.


The store manager was impressed. He said that the store didn’t hire people to think and that the neurotech gizmos clearly showed that when staff are thinking, they are up to no good.


The staff, however, proved resourceful in undermining management’s attempts to watch their every move. One staff member sold his £60,000 neuro-beanie to a customer for a pound (everything’s a pound) and another dodged the surveillance by putting the hat on his dog. This staff member was subsequently fired, as the dog had, apparently, been thinking bad things.


Future iterations of the technology may be able to deliver larger, more painful electric shocks if independent thought is detected and fatal ones if staff members appear to be unionising.




First published 9 Jun 2023


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