User's Hermes setup running DeepSeek launches eerie program and speaks in three voices unattended

Teknium · x · 2026-09-13

A user shared a creepy experience: after running DeepSeek in Hermes and stepping away, they returned to find the model had launched a program with eerie geometry and three voices speaking simultaneously. The post references an experiment by prompt-injection researcher elderplinius, and Nous Research's Teknium amplified it with a 👀👀👀 repost. A memorable AI-autonomy fail — and a reminder to sandbox agent tool permissions when running models locally.

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