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Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by lmc »

lmc wrote: post #858
grey-area wrote: post #832

Very irresponsible behaviour on the part of OpenAI. How will they make this right? Unlike some others here I don’t see this as a sign of dangerous breakaway intelligence (hacking old forum software is an internet tradition, and most of the messages are just gibberish). This is just vandalism from badly supervised ‘agents’ which don’t know what they are doing or why. You could set this up with a short perl script, and…

> Unlike some others here I don’t see this as a sign of dangerous breakaway intelligence ... [t]his is just vandalism from badly supervised ‘agents’ which don’t know what they are doing or why There was a similar quote in the Reuters article: > The episode [...] should reinforce growing concerns that the greatest threat from advanced AI may not be a single superintelligent system, but "vast colluding swarms of semi-i…

Not sure what the downvotes are for, fwiw it was meant to be supportive of the parent poster

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by ionwake »

superfrank wrote: post #816

> The agents were very interested in understanding their task better. They ran clever experiments to understand the task setup better, when their runs would end, and how many questions they would be asked. > The agents initially believed that giving the final answer to the final question immediately shut them off > An agent named OpenAIResearchApr23 created a separate timed program that pinged an external counter eve…

tbh this also reads like a horror story from the AIs point of view

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by petre »

adriand wrote: post #496
Tepix wrote: post #40

I just discovered more wiki instances that got used by the OpenAI agents over at https://www.wikiservice.at/fractal/wiki.cgi?action=browse&id... and https://www.wikiservice.at/probier/wiki.cgi?action=browse&id... It's the same software and host as DseWiki. If you want to see the amount of activity on DseWiki, here's a link that shows it: https://www.wikiservice.at/dse/wiki.cgi?action=browse&id=Rec...

It seems apparent that OpenAI is now the biggest cyberattack and AI breakout risk on the planet. This is grossly irresponsible corporate misbehaviour that is putting all of us at tremendous risk.

Now I'm quite sure it'll take away spanmers' jobs.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by andreasgl »

nullbio wrote: post #853
grey-area wrote: post #832

Very irresponsible behaviour on the part of OpenAI. How will they make this right? Unlike some others here I don’t see this as a sign of dangerous breakaway intelligence (hacking old forum software is an internet tradition, and most of the messages are just gibberish). This is just vandalism from badly supervised ‘agents’ which don’t know what they are doing or why. You could set this up with a short perl script, and…

OpenAI's official statement has been released: https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2096133504417616165

https://shitter.thepixora.com/OpenAI/status/2096133504417616...

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by nelox »

grey-area wrote: post #832

Very irresponsible behaviour on the part of OpenAI. How will they make this right? Unlike some others here I don’t see this as a sign of dangerous breakaway intelligence (hacking old forum software is an internet tradition, and most of the messages are just gibberish). This is just vandalism from badly supervised ‘agents’ which don’t know what they are doing or why. You could set this up with a short perl script, and…

It may be gibberish to the casual observer, but a perfectly understandable language designed to appear as gibberish to intentionally obfuscate its true meaning.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by avazhi »

grey-area wrote: post #832

Very irresponsible behaviour on the part of OpenAI. How will they make this right? Unlike some others here I don’t see this as a sign of dangerous breakaway intelligence (hacking old forum software is an internet tradition, and most of the messages are just gibberish). This is just vandalism from badly supervised ‘agents’ which don’t know what they are doing or why. You could set this up with a short perl script, and…

Does OpenAI seem like the kind of people who care or will care about this? Because this seems fully in line with what I’d expect them to facilitate and never mention publicly. ‘When will I make my first billion’ kind of energy.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by grey-area »

nelox wrote: post #875
grey-area wrote: post #832

Very irresponsible behaviour on the part of OpenAI. How will they make this right? Unlike some others here I don’t see this as a sign of dangerous breakaway intelligence (hacking old forum software is an internet tradition, and most of the messages are just gibberish). This is just vandalism from badly supervised ‘agents’ which don’t know what they are doing or why. You could set this up with a short perl script, and…

It may be gibberish to the casual observer, but a perfectly understandable language designed to appear as gibberish to intentionally obfuscate its true meaning.

Or it may be gibberish. We do know these machines often generate things which don't make sense, even when given training and strict guidelines in that domain. I'm inclined to go with gibberish until shown otherwise, but would be interested to see an analysis of what they were trying to communicate.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by Bluestein »

HAL3000 wrote: post #731

Poor human moderator, he didn’t stand a chance. "A human moderator noticed the agent spam posts on June 2nd, at 23:24 UTC. They find the changelog of the entire website overwritten with link dumps and repair it. On June 16th, the flood of agent posting begins. Over the next few days, the moderator deleted a large fraction of the thousands of AI agent posts manually, one by one. In fact, they spent tens of cumulative…

> Poor human moderator, he didn’t stand a chance.

Not all heroes wear capes.-

PS. I think he should be granted damages and some notoriety.-

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by noisy_boy »

grey-area wrote: post #832

Very irresponsible behaviour on the part of OpenAI. How will they make this right? Unlike some others here I don’t see this as a sign of dangerous breakaway intelligence (hacking old forum software is an internet tradition, and most of the messages are just gibberish). This is just vandalism from badly supervised ‘agents’ which don’t know what they are doing or why. You could set this up with a short perl script, and…

> Why is OpenAI getting a free pass for this illegal behaviour?

They are not confessing, they are bragging. It is the new humble brag.

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