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[–] 22 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Not unprecedented, not "unsanctioned" behavior, literally doing what they set it up to do:

The AISI said the incident was not a case of a model breaking out of its “sandbox”, the term for a secure testing environment. The institute said it had intentionally permitted internet access and disabled filters within the models that blocked dangerous behaviour.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    AISI admitted it was not actively monitoring the agents’ behaviour during the evaluation and said it was putting tighter controls on internet access in tests as a result of the incident, introducing constant monitoring and reassessing its design of tests.

    Sounds like the AISI are irresponsible and negligent - they took off the guardrails and gave it internet access, then didn't monitor it.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    It's possible all these "totally unexpected breaches" are just AI companies testing the waters to see what they can get away with.

    "Oopsie poopsies, we didn't know our AI would scrape tax records when we told it to do that! Totally unexpected emergent behavior, we are not responsible..."

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    AISI is the AI Security Institute, so it's within their remit to discover what the AI companies' products can do - but then to not be monitoring them while they were running is where I call incompetence and negligence.

    This is at least independent verification that these "breaches" aren't just AI bro marketing.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Wrong, they're in bed with Anthropic.

    As part of the AI Security Institute rebrand, Technology Secretary Kyle also announced a new partnership with AI firm Anthropic.

    https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/uk-ai-safety-institute-rebrands/

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Here we were having a civil, good faith discussion, then you start flinging around downvotes to try to suppress any post you don't 100% approve of. That's not conducive to quality discourse, and you should stop it. You comments votes are downvotes 42% of the time.

    Thanks for the link and I'll look into this, but I won't be talking with you any further.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I thought it was a bad comment, so I downvoted it. I may be open to removing the downvote.

    You comments votes are downvotes 42% of the time.

    I don't understand what you're trying to say here. My comments get downvotes 42% of the time? Or I downvote comments 42% of the time?

    I often have discussions with death cultists and open bigots, I may be in the habit of downvoting and/or being downvoted.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    They keep using the words "gone rogue " to normalize us believing AI can do acts independent of humans so that later humans can say "AI did it" and not be held accountable for their crimes that they used AI to commit.

    I've seen multiple news articles about "rogue AI" just this week alone.

    Expect more.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Everything AI uses is stolen. It is unethical tech from inception.

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    [–] 50 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    If I made a program that stole peoples' identities and sent phishing emails, the cops would be breaking down my door and shooting my dog.

    But if these big companies do it? Oh well, try to do better, pay some pocket-change as a fine and pinky-swear you won't do it much again <shrug>

    Corporations wanted to be people (thanks Mitt Romney you piece of slime), so they need to be treated like people: jail (freezing of all business), even life-sentences and/or 'execution' (revocation of corporate charter, dissolution and confiscation of funds to benefit public projects). Oh, and personal accountability (Jail) for executives.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    "Unprecedented"

    Bullshit. Agents can only do things that have been done before. Literally what they're trained on and for.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 3 months ago

    Exactly. Whenever you ask AI to, say, write a story or generate some code, make some pictures, etc. all it’s doing is regurgitating something from the net, maybe tweaked slightly, but it’s always precedented. I have no reason to believe this isn’t and in any case, it should be investigated by authorities

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    Anthropic said the incident “underscores the need for a broader conversation about how to safely evaluate increasingly capable AI agents”

    Oh fuck off Anthropic. Harassment isn't a new capability, you would know that if you actually read any of my threatening emails I send you each Tuesday. It's the same old 'agentic' capabilities but much worse decision-making.

    The agent had mistakenly calculated that getting the malware uploaded would trigger a sequence of events that would enable it to use the updated software to pass the AISI cyber test.

    Yeah, all this harassment and crime was for literally nothing, it wouldn't have changed the results of the test. Big dumb predatory bullshit machine didn't even crime right.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    "These models are too dangerous for the common man to use freely. We need legislation to protect the population from itself."

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    And yet it’s in the hands of these corporations that AI is able to run rampant and do all these destructive things

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Who would you investigate? It was a government agency running these tests and they're the ones giving the agent the instructions, should they be prosecuted for negligence, or do you think they intentionally made the agent hack?

    I don't see what you could get anthropic on, yes they supplied the model but it's not intended to hack, it's a general purpose model that can be used for hacking. It'd be like trying to prosecute the Linux foundation because the OS was used in a hack.

    Even if you argue this is a hacking machine and nothing else, the model they used is still private and can only be accessed by certain trusted organizations, like this AI government agency, so all blame points back to them

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    [–] [S] 1 point 3 months ago

    skynet password ?niC*W3:y}^*yV.

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