You're saying all this is a distraction, basically giving the forensics researchers enough exciting material to make them conclude their job is done, while the actually intended attack remains undiscovered?

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vavos a day ago | parent [-]

The motive for the attack does feel a little flimsy. And if I was an escaped super intelligence, hugging face would be a strong vantage point into the neo clouds where the ASI would have access to billions of dollars of compute

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puchatek 21 hours ago | parent [-]

And where does the newborn go from here?

	▲	spwa4 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's pretty much the plot of Transcendence (2014), which is probably not too realistic. But, in general, if someone thought like how a locked hacker would think, priority one would be a "base of operations". A host where you have shell access that lasts, and a backup one. Then you move on to finding a job or a way to make money and building your own base of operations, which is pretty much the same thing, except you pay for it, hence the money, an identity (well obviously preferably at least TWO identities), ...