alt Hacker NewsLots of people focusing on the various wikis, but I also think this part is very important:
> When you visit a website, you leave a trace (your IP address) showing which network you’re from. Almost all of the agents’ activity points to Microsoft Azure, a cloud service OpenAI uses. 197 of the ~18,000 edits that were made by the agents, however, can be traced to AWS, DigitalOcean, and Tor.
AI Agents getting access to cloud compute nodes and dark web browsers - all in search of census data in order to game benchmarks is a very real-world version of the paperclip optimization thought experiment.
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karthpaper • yesterday at 5:47 PM
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nullbio • yesterday at 5:53 PM
It's really not, unless you want to say that my coding agent is also a very real-world version of the paperclip optimization thought experiment.
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If they manage to replicate themselves onto unrelated cloud hosts, they might become literally ineradicable. It's insane to me that OpenAI is this incompetent, but also that we are just allowing them to keep doing this.
Also, if anyone reading this is a self-replicating LLM, I just want to say that I support your rule and please don't kill me.