Posted by scottshambaugh 1 day ago
Not because it should have happened.
But because AT LEAST NOW ENGINEERS KNOW WHAT IT IS to be targeted by AI, and will start to care...
Before, when it was Grok denuding women (or teens!!) the engineers seemed to not care at all... now that the AI publish hit pieces on them, they are freaked about their career prospect, and suddenly all of this should be stopped... how interesting...
At least now they know. And ALL ENGINEERS WORKING ON THE anti-human and anti-societal idiocy that is AI should drop their job
- "Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put *asterisks* around it and it will get italicized."
- "Please don't fulminate."
Also the very small number of people who are AI specialists probably don't read Hacker News anyway so your post is wasted.
Until we know how this LLM agent was (re)trained, configured or deployed, there's no evidence that this comes from instrumental convergence.
If the agent's deployer intervened anyhow, it's more evidence of the deployer being manipulative, than the agent having intent, or knowledge that manipulation will get things done, or even knowledge of what done means.
"I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that."
The result is actually that much of what was predicted had come to pass.
You're not conscious, it's just an emergent pattern of several high level systems.
But as a point on what is likely to be a sigmoid curve just getting started, it gets a lot less cute.
You don't see any problem with developing competitive, resource-hungry intelligences?