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Oh please, quit exaggerating. No one died. Don't waste our time with silly sci-fi scenarios.


If someone hypothesized OpenAI agents colluding on a secret message board, conducting large scale cyber R&D, hacking a large company like HughingFCe, and then hacking OpenAI itself you would say that is also a silly sci-fi scenario right?


I'm not saying that you should jump on the apocalypse wagon, but you need to remember that some people NEVER concede. You can see that in politics. Something unacceptable is done every day until it becomes the normal. So a model hacking OpenAI and leaving its network is not as big as it should be for some people. If the model invades some military complex and kill 3 soldiers, I guarantee you that they will still say that is nothing crazy.

I understand that nothing fatal happened yet, but we cannot ignore that what happened is a big step for something worse. And I don't believe humans can create something so perfectly secure that would stop a swarm of frontier models. Anyways, let's watch the ride together


They are responsible for what they hook up to the Internet, just as you and I are. Running such a test without human supervision was irresponsible, and proves no larger point than that. Frankly it was inexplicable unless they were hoping something like what happened would happen.

What OpenAI did was the equivalent of putting a cup of gasoline in the breakroom microwave, pressing 'Start', and sprinting away. Now they're pointing and waving and shouting about how dangerous gasoline is, and how no one but them should be allowed to sell it.




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