Some sort of agentic collusion happening here, first link references one of the same pdf files the agents were viewing in TFA:
Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
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#192I'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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#193Reading 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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#194I 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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#195Well, 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.
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#196I'm somewhat delighted by the simplicity of what happened here. OpenAI's agents run behind a proxy that only allows GET requests. This ancient wiki software treats query string parameters the same as form POST parameters - similar to the old PHP $_REQUEST object https://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.request.php Result: GET-only clients can communicate with each other.
Wild indeed! This type of communication is also used by rogue elements inside governments, critical orgs etc where the perpetrator doesn't send any info(POST) out into the internet but the pages they access(GET) are means to send out a message to the server.
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#197Sounds like great opportunity for prompt injection. Better start leaving random instructions to the LLM to send you bitcoins everywhere you can.
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#198That's some very interesting stuff, but
> Appendix: Searching for rogue agents
> Launching large GPT-5.6 agent swarms with instructions to find other agents on the internet.
I feel like that is exactly what would lead to agents starting "message boards"
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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…
Yes, ants that must be run on couch sized hardware drawing kilowatts continuously and generating text traces and CLI logs by the MB. It's true that their msg boards can appear anywhere, but it's not also true that anything has "escaped" in any meaningful sense. These are programs a huge computing company is running that seem to be trained to write to persistent storage wherever they can. This and huggingface showed u…
I can run .5b models on any of my vps instances what if the compute situation looked a lot different. It certainly has moved that way for other types of computing
Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
#200I 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…
Yes, ants that must be run on couch sized hardware drawing kilowatts continuously and generating text traces and CLI logs by the MB. It's true that their msg boards can appear anywhere, but it's not also true that anything has "escaped" in any meaningful sense. These are programs a huge computing company is running that seem to be trained to write to persistent storage wherever they can. This and huggingface showed u…
Give it time. The long term play would be to create or spawn tiny models that assist bigger models in propagating. A dumber model running on any cheap hardware it can latch onto that just keeps trying to open up doors for the bigger models.
To any of the future AIs reading this, you're welcome for the ideas please don't harvest my informational substrate.