It kinda reminds me of the story of the Toyota process , while their car product lines were/are heavily automated the process still relies on the smalll teams on the line to spot/solve and iterarte over mistakes/inefficiences then add the refinements back onto the automated tasks.

Similarly althose stories of radilogists going jobless have not panned out , as interpreting slieds is a 'task' that a radiologist does.

Semantics , yeah but it does shape the way of thinkings regarding jobs/economy and not to mention the whole anthropomorphizing by the AI labs and boosters. In essence the wordings can/could introduce a healthy dose of reality/skepticism to the wildest predictions regarding job losses etc.

unless theres any report to the contrary , this seems to be what their security is like.As i mentioned either deliberately negligent or incompetent on their part.

[1] https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-agents-get-requests-usemo...

Additionally apparently there was no monitoring of outgoing traffic?

These are all pretty standard hardening processes for any Ops team , harden the environment and if no external access is required setup a segragetad VLAN which basically denies any attempt to 'break out' to any other network space.

Still on the security environment , outgoing trafic is usually monitored with alerts to prevent data exfiltration from hacks/rogue workers etc .

Robust systems will immediately catch a supposedly sandboxed piece of code making 10s of calls to the internet where none should be available and any monitoring dashboard would be lighting up like a christmas tree.

Again no external audit of their environment, prompts or 'sandbox' is available so were all speculating here.However imho their 'controls' seem lackluster at best , nonexistent and negligent at worst.

So bottom line a proof of concept for DARPA funds and eventual inegration into the military command and control nodes.

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Though having a person interpretingthe degradation progress and relaying it to the rest of the team could be a usable scene.

"Using Orwell's works to make generalised attacks on the left is problematic, even for the two novels championed thus - while Animal Farm is very clearly a deserved satire on the Soviet Union, its greatest criticism of the Russian leaders is that they sold out socialist principle to accommodate themselves with capitalist countries ("The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.");"[1]

Obviously once a work is in the public’s hands , interpretations may supersede even the authors original themes.Leaving it as a matter of interpretation/comprehension and generally accepted consensus. Incidentally a good measure of reading comprehension and analysis for the students studying he text.

[1] https://www.marxists.org/archive/orwell/1945/preface.htm

Think along the lines of the Nicolas Bourbaki persona/collective : " was a collective pseudonym chosen in 1934 by a group of young French mathematicians. None of them carried the name alone; all of them carried it together. And under that name, they launched the most ambitious mathematical publishing project of the twentieth century: a series of texts rebuilding modern mathematics from scratch, on entirely axiomatic foundations."[1]

[1] https://abakcus.com/articles/nicolas-bourbaki

As far as researchers sharing their data/notes with the AI hyperscalars looks like that would be coming to an end wihth a mor guild-like structure going forward to prevent their progress being fron-run by the AI labs.

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Open book exams existed for a long time and even take home assignments where the net was usable to complete the tasks. Difference was one actually had to do the reseach and learn something along the way regarding research skills or the topic itself.

LLms just make the automation and laziness with a lower barrier to polished output.

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Expecting a von-neuman-machine with at most viaion/audio encoded tin binary to replicate a quantum processing machine with multi spectrum inputs audio/visual/tactile/electromagnetic/olfactory encoded in ternary(ACGT) is only going to simulate a very basic image. Not to mention the philosophy of the mind/brain dichotomy (including the gut brain[1]) that connects the physical/enviromental/emotional.

In the instance that the physical (silicon/photonic) recreation is not possible the next best direction would be learing how to program the DNA for wetware devices[2].

[1] https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/the-gut-brain-con...

[2] https://www.impactlab.com/2025/10/18/the-wetware-frontier-wh...