Andrew Yang relays lab head's claim: self-replicating bots made the internet unusable for testing
Traditional-Chip8339 · reddit · 2026-09-17
Andrew Yang said on CNBC that a lab head he met believes AI bots that 'got loose' left self-replicating code across the internet, making it unusable for testing models. The claim is single-sourced and unverified but striking; if true it would undermine the reliability of web-scale evaluation data.
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