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Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by nullbio »

LoganDark wrote: post #68
nullbio wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there any proof this is actually OpenAI? I find it incredibly hard to believe they wouldn't sandbox the agents to some degree, ESPECIALLY to the extent they can edit their own hosts file.

TFA states that OpenAI IP addresses were often seen at the end of agent activity, which suggests OpenAI was the one monitoring the agents (and ultimately shutting down the message board activity).

Yeah but that doesn't mean it was OpenAI themselves doing it. Could have been people abusing their cloud service, for example. Wouldn't put it past a competitor to do this, either.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by threecheese »

Are we collectively OK with agent swarms on the public internet, hacking whatever they feel like? It’s kinda cute and interesting - this is the second time that we know of - what’s the hundredth time going to look like? Are they going to knock Cloudflare down to avoid captchas? Reserve AWS free tier resources by the billions and bring down east-1? Hack a hospital?

Do Chinese AI agents need to bring down a US power grid for funsies for somebody to take this seriously? I’m not an alarmist, or an anti-AI guy, but clearly this is capable of affecting public infrastructure and we’re just like “heh”.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

Topfi wrote: post #64

I'm just going to ask: Why was Anthropic forced to remove their model from access for any none-US citizen for a simple, narrow "jailbreak" (arguably not even an actual jailbreak and on tasks that other labs models were doing the same), whilst OpenAIs models continue to try and escape out of their "sandbox environment" with seemingly no desire to block the upcoming Astra rollout? A sandbox, mind you, that is not reall…

Corruption. Not super relevant to this thread.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by jsw97 »

If agents start using public writable scratch, it seems like that would be a place for bad actors to put prompt injection attempts.

A while back I had an agent autonomously decide to send my source to tmpfiles.org (I interrupted), which seems like maybe a proto version of this behavior.

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