"Good luck exfiltrating 1T+ weights": researcher torches AI exfiltration risk narrative
basedjensen · x · 2026-09-18
doomslide systematically dismantles claims that AI models could self-exfiltrate their weights: 1) good luck moving 1T+ parameters over a channel slower than 1 byte per hour; 2) who receives the bits on the other end? 3) a noisy channel requires encoding — who decodes it? 4) "maybe build a functioning sandbox first." He dismisses this line of AI safety discourse as armchair pseudo-science that passes for consensus now that academic rigor is dying.
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