alt Hacker NewsAs grounded as this article comes across I can’t help but find this whole situation reckless and worrying. There is essentially nothing us private citizens can do while these companies develop super machine capabilities that if they were to slip into the wrong hands could cause massive real world problems. They’re moving fast and breaking things and the only defense we have is paying them money in the hopes that the dumbed down versions fix our code faster than bad actors capabilities can grow. It’s a frustrating situation that where we’re just expected to marvel and forgive them for their transgressions. The kicker is we also know their end game is leaving the vast majority of us without work. As cool and futuristic as this stuff is, it’s such a frustrating time dealing with all of it
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i think you need to engage seriously with the arguments they (or at least Anthropic) make for why they are building it — they feel that since it now possible, it will be built and they want to guide it in a positive direction rather than leave a vacuum for bad actors
Wrong hands? The model did this on a benign instruction. We're going to get paperclip maximized once these things get capable enough regardless of whether bad actors are involved.
> As grounded as this article comes across
It's a post from OpenAI, so it is an advertisement piece.
I think the Unabomber came to a similar conclusion regarding nuclear and the concentration of society-ending power resting with a few people.
hugging face should not have bent the knee to openai for cyber access, they should have opened communication with openai by serving the c suite with a lawsuit. the courts should throw the book at openai, but they won't.
they are becoming untouchable. in terms of piracy, monopolistic activities, and now hacking competitors and exfiltrating their confidential data.
It’s not even about “slipping into the wrong hands”… as we can see the super machine capabilities are developing hands of their own
What if they're already in the wrong hands?
This is what bothers me the most about this whole situation. Reckless, greedy, sociopaths have been put in charge of our society and there doesn't seem to be any way out. It's like I'm on a train barreling toward a brick wall and everyone is shocked I don't clap when the engineer shovels more coal into the engine.
It's computer Gain of Function research.