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Comment by jaredcwhite | Hacker News Reader

“We can’t put the genie back in the bottle.”

Actually we can. And we will.

Agreed, it's funny how people have taken unrestrained use of AI as an axiom at this point. There very much is still time to significantly control it + regulate it. Is there enough appetite by those in power (across the political spectrum)? Right now I don't think so.

>There very much is still time to significantly control it + regulate it.

There's also huge financial momentum shoving AI through the world's throat. Even if AI was proven to be a failure today, it would still be pushed for many years because of the momentum.

I just don't see how that can be reversed.

How?

Law or war. Not saying it would happen.

It was presented without explanation and can be ignored without explanation.

You need an explanation of how people make norms & laws regarding what is acceptable or unacceptable in society and industry?

No such claim was made, therefore no such claim needs to be refuted. If people want to engage in conversation they will have to use their words to do it.

Only way I could see it is if there's enough pushback on them taking everyone's power and water (and computer parts) in a world where power and water are becoming increasingly unstable. But I feel like defeating Ai because there is not enough consistent water and power to give them means there is more pressing issues at hand...

Poison Fountain: https://rnsaffn.com/poison2/

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/11/industry_insiders_see...

Yea, this will work about as well as those image poisoners... they'll eat up more power, but won't have any effect at the end of the day.

It only takes 50 poisoned documents to make an LLM training algorithm spit out wrong results on a specific topic, and 250 can make it produce complete gibberish. https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison

Great Butlerian Jihad

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