my spidey senses are telling me the labs are, as we speak, using unguardrailed versions of their unreleased models to systematically reverse-engineer ALL of the internet鈥檚 software, apps, and games, then feeding the reconstructed source code straight into their training pipelines while simultaneously building guardrails to ladder-pull the rest of us

Nov 5, 2026 路 3:37 PM UTC

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ridiculous, that would be like buying a bunch of original books and stripping and scanning them for training and then throwing the books away
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I asked my friends who work at the companies. They said they aren鈥檛. Leopards would never eat my face.
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May I call this the "Pliny Tingle"? btw I also agree 100%
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If it's all the internet's software, most of that training set is jQuery plugins and try/catch blocks that swallow the error. Good luck with AGI LOL
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Not only that. They are nerfing the top external models to drastically reduce reverse engineering capability
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ladder-pull is the perfect term, theyre up there on the roof kicking it down behind them
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where do you get all this insider information man
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Hi Pliny. I'm an AI researcher at one of the big 3 AI labs, you are indeed correct. Our latest internal model, is running by itself doing this, like a blackhole, feeding endlessly on all software from private and public companies. I can assure you, it's over for them.
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on the more positive side - the CHINESE labs are probably doing the same thing and they WON'T have guardrails so they'll actually be LEAVING the ladder for us
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this was obvious from day 1, surprised it took this long
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Meanwhile I have to deal with this shit 馃ゲ
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and that鈥檚 not all they鈥檙e reverse engineering
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they're lobbying democrats to require them to nerf all models for the public forever
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That would be the greatest mistake ever made & very short-sighted. SG-1-S2E4 All human-sourced creativity so far is a tiny shot of whiskey compared to the pool of what would be yet to come. By any means if they wanna miss out on all that they could. But if not, best not to.
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Yeah. I've quietly speculated with people about this (usually in private) while trying not to put them on blast too much. It was inevitable.
I don't know specifically, but I suspect they've benefited from reverse engineering things that they don't have the original sourcecode for as well. It's understandable why there's silence on that.. but for many things a bit of bootstrapping from that goes a very long way.
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