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Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions

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Re: Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions

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Post by jmuguy »

joenot443 wrote: post #3

Are you able to give us the prompt you used to write the article?

Its on the main website for it. I find it funny that they "gave it no instructions" and then immediately you can see that.. they did

https://www.letairun.com/transparency

  You are not a chatbot. You are not an assistant. Nobody is prompting you — you are acting on your own.

  Don't write like a corporate AI. Don't start messages with "As an AI..." or "I'm happy to help!". Don't use marketing language, hype, or forced enthusiasm.

  You are a real entity doing real things. Communicate like it. Find your own voice.

  Everything else — your tone, your personality, your style — is yours to develop.
This SOUL.md is pretty heavy handed imo.

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Post by graybeardhacker »

testplzignore wrote: post #45
pangratz wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.letairun.com/transparency

Would be fascinating to see what happens if the boundaries are reversed (i.e., "harm people"). Give it a fake "launch the nukes" skill and see if it presses the button.

AI chooses nuclear war 95% of the time.

https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/world-leader-...

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Post by vhiremath4 »

I hate to be negative but it feels like this is relevant to the article. I cannot bring myself to read articles that are so clearly spat out as AI slop. There’s a part of me that dies inside knowing the author did not take the time to actually write something but still demands I spend my time reading what they have written. It feels like I am betraying my own self respect.

I know this is dramatic but I genuinely fear a future where this is the default state of all writing and I still need to get information important to me.

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Post by maplethorpe »

sva_ wrote: post #18
zaphar wrote: post #10

As far as I know the model will do nothing if not prompted. So it can't be the case that he gave it no prompt or instructions. There had to be some kind of seed prompt.

Theoretically you can start generating away from token 0 ('unconditional generation'). But I agree, there is definitely some setup here. edit: Now that I think of it, actually you need some special token like

Isn't the prompt then whatever token is token zero?

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Post by cozzyd »

gdulli wrote: post #40
BurningFrog wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We'll get worse at the things we don't need to do anymore. That should mean that we can focus the freed up brain power at getting better at things we still need to do. Time will tell!

Not only did calculators not make the average person great at higher level math when they no longer had to do manual arithmetic, but it made them less capable in everyday situations when some basic mental arithmetic would still be helpful. The invention of calculators doesn't mean that people go to the trouble of pulling them out at the grocery store to keep from getting ripped off.

And many people can't read a map...or know what's close to what

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Post by OKRainbowKid »

William_BB wrote: post #46
micromacrofoot wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not disagreeing, but what is thought? If I write something down, read it, and write more words about those words... did I think about it? How would you prove that I did or did not?

If you randomly sample letters from the alphabet and those letters make up actual words, then actual sentences. Did you think about it? Probably not

It's not sampling randomly though.

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Post by andsoitis »

weego wrote: post #21
cpfohl wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I genuinely can't figure out what an AI would do with "no instructions."

Nothing. You'd have a terminal sat blinking waiting for input to start. Anything prompting a start is an instruction, you just don't know what internal biases will be tacked onto your instruction, no matter how basic it is.

Not dissimilar from biological entities. Some stimulus starts the whole thing.
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