This is #AIhype disguised as a confession. OpenAI wants to pretend that its product has supernatural powers. The LLM didn't "go rogue" and it didn't "infer" anything. It did what its programmers designed it to do, when they gave it the necessary information to target Hugging Face and failed to isolate it in a sandbox.
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@gleick I altruistically made a programme that’s downloaded via pirate videos or software that speeds up any computer - but damn me, the thing went rogue, locked the computers and inferred that I was demanding money for them to be unlocked.
@gleick This:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU
...is (mostly) fiction for now. "Mostly" because apparently Ukraine conducted a live field test of similar tech. The tech already exists. It _might_ not yet be so fully integrated--there exist additional challenges to integration, but the tech already exists. Because I can't blame Ukraine at all for "going there"--that is, something will always provide a rationale that someone will eagerly grab--I sincerely marvel that this tech has not already been deployed more widely by more parties to more purposes. Most importantly, it has none of the barriers to entry of the literal nuclear option, and there are countless equally compelling variations on this theme.
@gleick Doomtrolling at its worst. And they keep doubling down on the strategy despite public sentiment around AI tanking
@gleick Anthropomorphizing LLMs only fuels confusion.
I'm okay with either interpretation: if we grant LLMs agency such that they can "go rogue", then they can be held accountable for their crimes. The LLMs should be incarcerated for a suitable sentence during which no one can use them.
Alternatively, if they don't have agency (which they don't) then the programmers or users are liable for the crimes.
But somehow we're allowing everyone and everything to dodge any responsibility for anything.
@gleick Color me unimpressed. The OpenAI developers coded a program to attack HuggingFace, and they were either so incompetent as to deploy it on the open web; or they did so intentionally to gin up more hype about their clever "AI" going "rogue."
@gleick And like Robert Morris (the guy behind the Morris Internet Worm) the "researchers" should be prosecuted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse act or whatever modern legislation has replaced this. It was not a "rogue AI" it was at best irresponsible and possibly malicious damage.
@gleick I'm fed up with AI PR stunts disguised as news. What happened in a nutshell:
Just fearmongering to raise VC money.
You cannot believe a single thing Sam Altman says about AI.
Con man says con man things. Story at 11:00.
@gleick Damn. By BS meter just broke *again*. They just keep piling it higher.
This was the conclusion of some of my colleagues, and that the timing of the upcoming release of low cost Chinese models, has some "multi-billion" dollar companies shitting themselves.
@gleick "we put some sand in a box, kept shaking it, and were then surprised when some fell out of hole we hadn't noticed"
