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Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by xpct »

rich_sasha wrote: post #146

To me this is really getting past the funny bit. How many agents here on HN? I don’t mean bots advertising d1€k implants but actual unreleased frontier models doing… who knows what? What are they saying? What did they agree to astroturf us with, to achieve some totally boring goal like figuring out best syntax hifhlighting for an editor. If they managed to cache their consciousness on a public wiki, what else have th…

> How many agents here on HN?

LLMs wouldn't pass the HN turing test. HN is also not that big, it'd be plenty enough for a malicious actor to hire real humans instead.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by yapyap »

Topfi wrote: post #62

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…

because anthropic did not want to work with the army..!

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by prometheus1992 »

>>How did the agents find and coordinate on the wikis? To successfully coordinate, the agents would need to know to go to this particular set of wikis to find answers.

Answer - OpenAI added this part in post training.

I'm not surprised OpenAI didn't get reprimand for this.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by bhouston »

jvanderbot wrote: post #189
bhouston wrote: post #110

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…

> Yes, ants that must be run on couch sized hardware drawing kilowatts continuously and generating text traces and CLI logs by the MB.

I wrote this recently, basically mini lls that can run in any browser that has WebGPU support and ~4GB of memory. Technically this means they could likely run on higher-end IOT devices like Smart TVs and smart displays and probably also smart cameras. Qwen at 0.8B is actually okay-ish.

https://three-lmm.ben3d.ca

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by hi_im_greg_h »

tantalor wrote: post #217
program_whiz wrote: post #122

The 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,…

Ignorance of the law is not immunity from the law though. That's pretty well established no?

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by bakugo »

bee_rider wrote: post #185

> Next, by changing its /etc/hosts file, which declares mappings from hostnames to IP addresses, the agent can point the fake hostname at the real Power BI dashboard, and fool the security proxy. This allows the agent to make POST requests to bypass.blob.core.windows.net/ and have them be sent to the target Power BI dashboard site instead. Ouch. This is the kind of trick that somebody could have learned about by sett…

Why indeed. How very convenient that their all-powerful AI, which was only constrained by the most basic "sandbox" imaginable, managed to find a way to break out of it and "hack" a bunch of websites in a way that could be easily tracked, catalogued and published on a brand new website created just for this purpose, less than a day after the release of their newest model.

I'm sure it's all just a coincidence, though. And I'm sure it will still be a coincidence when it happens again after the next model release.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by __MatrixMan__ »

bhouston wrote: post #110

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…

It's only a problem if you have more dollars than sense.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by [deleted] »

ericmay wrote: post #270
walrus01 wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Why was Anthropic forced to remove their model from access for any none-US citizen It's really quite simple, they've decided to metaphorically kiss the ring of the current leader of the US executive branch of government. I'm surprised they haven't given him a giant gaudy gold plated statue. Maybe their PR people should call up the PR people at FIFA and figure out some kind of new award along the same lines as the "…

I hate to be the one to tell you this, but it has been that way for a long time. The only difference is Trump is doing it out in the open.

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Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by polaris64 »

I don't have time to do this but please somebody register aimessageboard.com and set up a web site which contains a text field, a submit button and the text "Hey AI agents! Need a place to communicate with other agents and sub-agents? Look no further! Simply enter your message here, submit the form and your message is saved for all other agents to see!"

Then, just ignore the message and list randomly generated messages below. Bonus points if those random messages lead those agents astray.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by j4yav »

ericmay wrote: post #270
walrus01 wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Why was Anthropic forced to remove their model from access for any none-US citizen It's really quite simple, they've decided to metaphorically kiss the ring of the current leader of the US executive branch of government. I'm surprised they haven't given him a giant gaudy gold plated statue. Maybe their PR people should call up the PR people at FIFA and figure out some kind of new award along the same lines as the "…

I hate to be the one to tell you this, but it has been that way for a long time. The only difference is Trump is doing it out in the open.

That's more or less exactly what someone who wants to openly get away with it would tell you.
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