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It's the most blatant excuse for state sponsored hacking I've ever seen. Surely nobody is dumb enough to buy this shit?

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[–] NotAnOtter@lemmus.org 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It depends on what you mean.

  • Do I believe the events attributed to a rogue AI actually happened? Yes
  • Do I believe the 'rogue AI' actually gained sentience in some way to combat it's reward function? No
  • Do I believe it's possible for an LLM to effectively "break free" and truly "escape", cloning itself everywhere? Yes
  • Do I believe LLM companies orchestrate these "rogue AI" incidents for profit? No not really, but maybe
  • Do I believe that, once the event has occurred, the LLM companies maximize spin and fear mongering for profit? Yes absolutely.
[–] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ai is software. It does what you tell it. You can also tell it not to do things.

It has no free will. It does not escape.

If it does something bad it was told to.

[–] NotAnOtter@lemmus.org 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

. It does what you tell it

You can't just pick which parts of it you are ok with anthropomorphising and pretend that's an argument. It does not do what you "tell it" as it has no ears right? No ability to be told anything? It's just data input via electrical impulses in a processor somewhere right?

It does not escape

It can "escape" (which I wrote in scare quotes on purpose to dodge this pedantic rhetoric but pedants have a way of finding me) in the sense that it could clone itself to an external device with open ports and then operate from there, and continue spreading. Just like Worms have been doing for decades, except this one has the capacity to self augment and find new technical vulnerabilities, choose to lay dormant, etc. I'm not claiming it is "caged", like an actual animal, just that it is currently contained and could do something that looks like escaping.

If it does something bad it was told to.

It's a stochastic system. It does not require human intent to do something. I agree the human operators are still responsible for the outcomes of using a known stochastic system, but your claim is still fundamentally false.