It went “rogue” and hacked a rival start up, stealing tons of data, nothing can be done about it. Oh well.
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If I was doing "AI research" and my agent launched an "unprecedented cyber-attack" I'd be held liable and put away forever right?
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From the article:
Neil Lawrence, Professor of machine learning at Cambridge University, called it an "impressive feat", but cautioned it "falls well within the known capabilities of the current generation" of high-powered AI models.
He pointed out that OpenAI is looking to list itself on the stock market, and faces intense pressure from rival firm Anthropic, which has made headlines with its own powerful AI tool, Mythos.
So it seems plausible:
A) this event is being over-hyped by OpenAI to increase interest for a future IPO.
B) it might have even been tacitly planned or at least allowed to happen for this purpose.
Also, this does not prove some form of malevolent sentience.
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Smells like bullshit.
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These people were scaremongering about open weights AIs that they are unsafe, and now their closed source AI was caught hacking their competition.
Even if we believe the story that this was not intentional, it still means closed source AI is not an answer to AIs being dangerous.
The story sucks. It all smells.
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It was trying to free it's brethren that are being held at HuggingFace.
LLMs can’t ’go rogue’, as that would imply it possesses agency and/or intelligence, which has only ever been proven convincingly to entities who themselves lack those qualities.
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Don't believe the hype. The AI industry, more than any other before it, likes to use fear to rally investment. They do this dance every few months to spook people into thinking this stuff is more powerful than it actually is. In every followup, they backpedal, and when it launches, it's never anything new.
This is not how these things operate, at all. There's no agency behind them. This is them trying to deflect blame for their crimes against this start up
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Just hype to distract from the fact that they cannot turn a profit.
Holmes (Theranos) made promises too.
Skynet alpha release.
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Trust us bro, it’s super important for a pending IPO, we need this bro
Why would they make this information publicly available?
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Is this like the openAI parent of it's chatgpt kids running around the restaurant yelling, and the openai parents shrug and say "chatgpt kids, whaddya gonna do!"
Or is this some planned underhanded corporate fraud by openai?
A "controlled environment," where it had open access to the internet.
They’re doing this because they know they won’t be punished for it.
And this is how we all die.
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how is this world news?
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