There seems to be three popular ways to view this incident. 1. The way OpenAI seems to want: Their latest LLM is too powerful and can’t be contained without them building in guidelines to the model. 2. OpenAI’s harness and network security controls were unintentionally so bad that it should reflect more poorly on them as a company more than it should reflect positively on their latest model. 3. The whole thing was fa…
> 2. OpenAI’s harness and network security controls were unintentionally so bad that it should reflect more poorly on them as a company more than it should reflect positively on their latest model.
Why unintentionally? Move fast and break things implies intentionally bad controls. Can't get distracted from profit by such menial labor.
Also remember, these are the same people we're supposed to trust to deliver the guardrails.