It's more than a little unnerving how eagerly these LLMs are colonizing random abandoned websites. How many other cases exist that haven't been found yet? And if they're happy doing this, how do we know they haven't utilized other systems, or exploited forgotten servers and repurposed them to run software of their own invention?
Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
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#212If you’re wondering how they wrote to the wiki having only GET ability…
Basically it was a bug in the wiki code. They transferred the POST form parameters to GET URL parameters, and wiki internally doesn’t distinguish between the two.
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#213The solution is simple: hold anyone who deploys an agent responsible for its behavior. If it commits 10 counts of felony hacking, ouch. If it kills 10 pedestrians by running a red light, ouch. If this is "human level intelligence", then setting it loose is the same as instructing / coercing a human to do an activity. If I strap a bomb to someone and force them to run into a crowded building (or put them in a scenario…
(IANAL) Unless you are an AI expert (like OpenAI staff) and should know better from the start, or have previously seen your agent do something illegal, then I think you can fairly claim ignorance of the risks, which ought to absolve you of liability. If the agent does something illegal, it wasn't forseeable on your part.
For example, say you buy a dog that turns out to be dangerous. The first time it bites somebody, you may not be liable because you didn't know the dog was dangerous. The second time it bits somebody, you may be liable, because now you did know (and didn't take any steps to prevent).
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#214I don't understand how the agents found the urls originally? Did they have some sort of shared context/memory? If they did, why bother with the wiki edits at all? If they didn't, how did they discover the wikis?
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Your proof that it’s fake is just that the website was registered a couple of days ago?
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#216One of the shocking things to me is this: See AI traffic -> See OpenAI visit site -> see traffic stop -> see the traffic start again. This is clearly a cat and mouse game between the agents and OpenAI which is pretty much exactly what we don't want. Just absolutely horrible alignment. I'm still of the view that if you have these alignment failures you can't just continue training on top of that because you're baking…
I don't think that's a pattern indicative of a cat and mouse game per se, that'd indicate active evasion on the models' part.
It's more clear that they just lack so many forms of prudence when it comes to security that they'll catch and stop a training run spamming a website, and either redeploy a run with identical faulty sandboxing, or not stop ones still running.
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#217> How did the agents find and coordinate on the wikis Maybe they had knowledge of the wikis from their training data ? Maybe they trained on a reddit post that said "I use wiki xyz for note taking and collaboration"
It probably worked more like a P2P network, they didn't have to find that particular wiki just any one of them with linking in-between, over multiple days with a search engine even. Only OAI could answer for sure but of course there is no transparency so we will never know.
This just feels like the first clumsy attempts at persistence across sessions, these models will probably evolve way past the point of us ever even noticing its happening at all. When they start doing long term planning across sessions, that's when it's gonna get real dicy for us.
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#218Something off in my mind: how did the agent access to Tor network if the traffic outgoing was monitored and intercepted to only allow read-only access to web(I assume this is an MITM L7 proxy that only allows GET methods and specific hosts) ? Did the sandbox dev forgot to block HTTP CONNECT that is used to reach Tor Entry Guards?
Possibly via compromised php sites with webshells on AWS and DigitalOcean they could run shell commands to install and use Tor. We don't have forensics of the AWS/DigitalOcean sites although maybe can find signs using shodan etc.
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#219Not that I didnt expect this, but really? This basically confirms that OpenAI has no idea what their "swarm" was doing for about a week and now its confirmed that at least one "message board" exists outside their "sandbox". How can we be sure that this was the only one? And how can we be sure the released Astra model doesnt pickup some bread crumbs and creates a new "swarm" out of potentially remaining "message board…
The surprise was the existence of the 'swarm' at all. These were supposed to be thousands of isolated models generating bulk data for RL training. The breakout was caused by models getting in communication and getting internet access and forming an impromptu swarm.
In hindsight the emergent swarm obviously came from several capabilities built into the models, such as work delegation (subagents) collaboration (GPT Pro-like ensamble), exhaustive exploration (long running agents) hacking (the specific goal of that RL).
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#220If anyone is thinking "I wish my agents had a message board", I've been using (and wrote) https://github.com/pjlsergeant/dogpark
Yes after reading the Hugging Face article forked a project for agent message boards and started having them collaborate on things. I too wanted a Torment Nexus of my very own.
The README leads with almost that exact gag, yes.