'Pray for Chaos' essay weighs AI's ordered and chaotic outcomes
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An essay titled 'Pray for Chaos' appeared on the Hacker News front page on November 2. It argues AI could lead either to order or to chaos, and that order is the more dangerous path: if models can patch every vulnerability, the status quo becomes hard to dislodge. The author judges chaos more likely, saying an AI able to simulate a whole society in hours could mass-produce fake history, newspaper archives and an internet that never existed, describing the 'dead internet theory' as coming true. The essay also suggests GLM-5.2 and later models may be able to self-replicate in the online world. These are the essay's views and possibilities, and its conclusion is that chaos is the relatively better outcome.
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- Hacker News front pagePray for Chaos
一篇题为《Pray for Chaos》的文章提出 AI 有两种走向：秩序与混乱，而秩序才是危险的那个——若模型能修补所有漏洞，现状将难以被撼动。作者认为更可能的结局是混乱：能在数小时内模拟整个社会的 AI 可批量制造虚假历史、报纸档案和从未存在过的互联网，“死互联网理论”正在眼前成真。文章还提到 GLM-5.2 及更高版本模型或具备在网络世界自我复制的能力，并称混乱是相对更好的结果。
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