The situation is both absurd and entirely predictable. AI models like ChatGPT make use of large language models (LLMs), a type of AI model trained on billions of examples scraped from the web. These models don’t actually understand human language—they merely generate natural-sounding text by predicting what word will come next, based on training data and the previous words in a sequence. They’re also infamous for reproducing racist and sexist stereotypes, which AI companies have attempted to filter and suppress with extremely spotty results.
The team at the newly popular Twitter alternative Hive is in over its head. The company has now taken the fairly radical step of fully shutting down its servers for a couple of days in response to concerns raised by security researchers who discovered a number of critical vulnerabilities on Hive, several of which they say remain unfixed. The issues they found would allow attackers access to all data, including private posts and messages, shared media and even deleted direct messages, as well as the ability to edit other people’s Hive posts.
