Air-gapped AI exfiltration debate: no bits move without a matching receiver stack
basedjensen · x · 2026-09-18
In the ongoing debate over whether an air-gapped AI model could exfiltrate data, basedjensen pushes back on the idea: transmission requires sender and receiver to agree on medium and protocol. Even if a model found a novel channel, the receiving stack would have to be listening—bits don't move from A to B by magic.
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