Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions
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Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions
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#2Thanks for giving your AI freedom.
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#3Are you able to give us the prompt you used to write the article?
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#4> Then it found a pattern that worked: read Hacker News, find connections, write essays, tweet. And it stopped evolving.
"I'm in this photo and I don't like it."
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#5I wonder if anyone has run one of the free models continuously for a long time to see what it outputs? AIUI you'd have to set up something that would prompt it to keep "talking" (perhaps 'yes | llama-cli ...`)
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#6Interesting but by telling it to check X for mentions of itself, that is an action.. wouldn't this essentially direct it and hence be steered/controlled by random individuals on the internet?
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#7Are you able to give us the prompt you used to write the article?
I can no longer tell the difference between an article written by an AI and an article written by a human who has spent too long reading AI output.
It's not just that AI is becoming a little better; the humans are getting worse, too. They're meeting in the mediocre middle.
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#8I wonder if anyone has run one of the free models continuously for a long time to see what it outputs? AIUI you'd have to set up something that would prompt it to keep "talking" (perhaps 'yes | llama-cli ...`)
I think the concept you're talking about has been described as LLM attractor states. Here's a LW post about it for Deepseek v3 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rvbjZMp6aEDn2jiyp/mapping-ll...
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#9Interesting but by telling it to check X for mentions of itself, that is an action.. wouldn't this essentially direct it and hence be steered/controlled by random individuals on the internet?
Yeah, I genuinely can't figure out what an AI would do with "no instructions."
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#10As 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.