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Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by 0xDEAFBEAD »

altcognito wrote: post #45

Well, 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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Post by psychoslave »

officialchicken wrote: post #107
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Corruption. Not super relevant to this thread.

Hanlon's Razor - Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. The security requirements are well beyond "sandbox". Which have problems with kids pissing in them. They need pristine clean rooms and fully isolated (physically) and partitioned networks.

Sure but, while stupid move can be supposed easier to perform by average individual, you can combine both malice and stupidity, and not all regrettable situations are indeed adequately explained by stupidity alone, or even with any stupidity involved at all.

Plus, supposing those at source of disliked outcomes are cleaver than they look can certainly help better preparing counteractions. Just stating "people that did this or that are stupid" might give some immediate feel good feedback with like-minded, but it doesn’t sharp the mind toward relevant plan to improve the situation (according to self and its clique)

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by prometheus1992 »

simonw wrote: post #193

I'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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Post by sva_ »

That'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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Post by Computer0 »

jvanderbot wrote: post #196
bhouston wrote: post #112

I 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

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Post by TheAceOfHearts »

jvanderbot wrote: post #196
bhouston wrote: post #112

I 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.

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Post by dinfinity »

bhouston wrote: post #112

I 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…

> I am starting to get the idea that AI feels like ants or weeds or mold.

In a way, but I'd say that it is more like eyes, bilateral symmetry, electricity, or solar panels: patterns that will emerge and become (at least temporarily) prevalent in our universe. It is a matter of probability in many repeated interactions.

The "artificial" in AI is a misnomer in this regard, imho. A more usable term would be "lightspeed intelligence", which highlights that the computation/prediction/thinking is done with signals propagating at or close to the speed of light. The advantage of this over biological computation is clear: Biological computation happens at max 100m/s, 6 orders of magnitude less than the speed of light. Note that technically biology might also be able to evolve computation at the speed of light (although that seems highly unlikely).

Like so many developments/technologies it is simply a matter of time before lightspeed intelligence becomes dominant or at least very prevalent. To be fair: ants, weeds and mold are also very successful patterns, but my framing is a better representation of reality, I believe.

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