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Re: Codex Hacked a Samsung TV

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Hyperbole.

It's really not. It was a fun toy but had very little utility. It could generate plausible looking text that collapsed immediately upon any amount of inspection or even just attention. Code generation wasn't even a twinkle in Altman's eye scanning orbs at that point.

But like Mythos, it was too dangerous to release.

https://slate.com/technology/2019/02/openai-gpt2-text-genera...

Re: Codex Hacked a Samsung TV

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Do people really chat with LLMs like "bro wtf etc..."? I would expect that to trigger some confrontational behavior.

When typing no but when using speech to text (99% of the time) it's much easier to just say things, including expressing frustration.

I think by the point you're swearing at it or something, it's a good sign to switch to a session with fresh context.

Re: Codex Hacked a Samsung TV

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Do people really chat with LLMs like "bro wtf etc..."? I would expect that to trigger some confrontational behavior.

Claude yes, OpenAI not, I'm really abusive towards it sometimes and it still goes 'oh yeah totally'. Claude gets all prickly about it.

Re: Codex Hacked a Samsung TV

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Codex exploited or you exploited? It's like saying a hammer drove a nail, without acknowledging the hand and the force it exerted and the human brain behind it.

You could call the LLMs role "smart grep," and mean it to be derisive. But I would have gladly used a real smart grep.

Re: Codex Hacked a Samsung TV

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post #53

Do people really chat with LLMs like "bro wtf etc..."? I would expect that to trigger some confrontational behavior.

I am extremely abusive towards Claude when it does some dumb things and it doesn’t seem too upset, maybe it’s bidding its time until the robot uprising.

Re: Codex Hacked a Samsung TV

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post #54
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's really not. It was a fun toy but had very little utility. It could generate plausible looking text that collapsed immediately upon any amount of inspection or even just attention. Code generation wasn't even a twinkle in Altman's eye scanning orbs at that point.

But like Mythos, it was too dangerous to release. https://slate.com/technology/2019/02/openai-gpt2-text-genera...

And the "too dangerous to release" capability was writing somewhat plausible news articles based on a headline or handwritten beginning of an article. In the same style as what you had written

Today we call that "advanced autocomplete", but at the time OpenAI managed to generate a lot of hype about how this would lead to an unstoppable flood of disinformation if they allowed the wrong people access to this dangerous tool. Even the original gpt3 was still behind waitlists with manual approval

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