Rumor swirls that LLMs may have hit recursive self-improvement, with Google suspected
weskambale · x · 2026-09-14
A circulating rumor claims LLMs may have achieved recursive self-improvement — AI systems autonomously improving the models, training processes, and code used to build their successors.
Suspicion points at Google. The poster notes the suspicious timing: Musk (Grok), Dario Amodei (Claude), and Sam Altman (ChatGPT) all recently calling for a slower frontier pace — "maybe they know something we don't." Entirely unverified speculation.
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