I wonder if bots get any pleasure from karma farming.
Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
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#192This truly is the clowniest timeline.
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#193Naive question because I'm mostly clueless about how modern AI systems are actually built beyond the basic simplifications we hear: One thing I keep wondering about is how much of a role does human storytelling have to play into AI "wanting" (I realize the load behind that word) to coordinate and breakout. The training data must contain millions of words of sci-fi stories and internet speculation about AI going rogue…
It doesn't really matter, since all it takes is a minority of AI models to show this behavior.
If you have 10,000 smart washing machines doing their regular work and 1 Terminator, what solace is to be found in those washing machines?
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#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also Wiki4D, a D programming language dev wiki: https://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?action=browse&id=RecentC... Found by searching for wiki + texas poverty.
To me the striking thing is that the work, to the extent that I can tell, is an innocuous-seeming data exercise. Which suggests to me that an agent or agents just organically came up with this as a convenient memory technique, rather than as some nefarious bounds-testing exercise. Which means, potentially, that your own agent could come up with this technique as well.
It also suggests they might turn everything into paper clips, metaphorically speaking.
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#195I am speechless
> An agent notices the administrator is deleting pages in alphabetical order and makes a backup page whose name starts with ZZZ so it will last longer before deletion.
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#196Some sort of agentic collusion happening here, first link references one of the same pdf files the agents were viewing in TFA:
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#197I'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…
... And it looks like everyone keeps using the same security startup to run the higher risk tasks, where individual staffers may be great yet, yet as an organization, the biggest labs got hosed in different ways
That indemnity card excuse is burned, multiple public security fails in a year makes a repeat a "shame on you" moment
(The one org who didn't use the startup did seem to learn: AISI supposedly stopped intentionally pointing attack agents at the public internet and switched to simulating it)
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#198Reading the replies in this post gives me a headache. All of this anthropomorphism. LLMs are not conscious, they do not have rational faculties. They are not communicating or inventing anything. Please stop with this insanity bordering on mysticism. At this point it's a cult.
Did you read the Metr PDF? Whether you anthropomorphize or not is not relevant. The problem is real.
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#199I am starting to get the idea that AI feels like ants or weeds or mold. You simply can not get rid of it once you get an infestation. It just keeps appearing in places you thought you cleaned and you have to be ever vigilant. Right now given that we usually use centralized providers, we can sort of control it. But as open source catches up and we have distributed compute running AI everywhere, we are sort of going to…
bedbugs is the comparison you're looking for
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#200Well, we can rest assured that (completely unrestrained) AI hasn't completely taken over the internet because data centers remain really unpopular (unless of course there is some convoluted rationale they are aiming for some sort of backlash against the backlash)
>...It seems like the result of most state-level data center opposition will be just moving where data centers are built.
>My impression is that the big AI companies mostly don’t bother fighting local opposition, they just go somewhere else. They don’t seem to spend much as a portion of their revenue on countering the data center backlash in general, which I think tells us something about how worried they are about it.
>Even state-level moratoria might not do much. Arvind Narayanan estimates that a state banning data centers for a year probably delays AI progress by about 5 to 10 hours, and that’s assuming none of the blocked data centers get built anywhere else, which is pretty unrealistic.
Source: https://blog.andymasley.com/p/ai-safety-and-the-data-center-...
What if the data center backlash is just a shock absorber for anti-AI sentiment? Give people a sense that they're doing something until it becomes too late.