Posted by specked-citrus 1 day ago
The scale of these things is impressive, but the mechanism is not much better than brute force.
DO NOT, EVER, MAKE THIS DATASET PUBLIC
OR ALL THE WORLD'S EVIL WILL CHASE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY FOREVER, EVEN IN DEATH AND BEYOND
Welp, I guess OpenAI is cursed now...
One thing the report leaves unexplained, but is curious to me, is that the agents were able to create links on a shortening service with only GET requests? Or did they bootstrap into that by first creating a sufficiently small program on the HTML sandbox that could POST to the link shortener?
Yeah to me it's more like the sandbox wasn't monitored at all. In their observability setup...did they not catch all these urls, multi get requests, chaining etc from the sandbox per se?
The agents didn't "escape" or conspire toward some evil purpose, as reported. They were instructed by humans to do exactly that.
"A spill or tumble can be quite embarrassing if there are witnesses.
How to reduce the humiliation? Turn it into a stunt. Claim it was intentional, a show for their benefit."
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IMeantToDoThat
>They were instructed by humans to do exactly that.
This is more or less what the doomers have worried about for decades.
>You cry "Get my mother out of the [burning] building!" [...] and press Enter.
>For a moment it seems like nothing happens. You look around, waiting for the fire truck to pull up, and rescuers to arrive - or even just a strong, fast runner to haul your mother out of the building -
>BOOM! With a thundering roar, the gas main under the building explodes. As the structure comes apart, in what seems like slow motion, you glimpse your mother's shattered body being hurled high into the air, traveling fast, rapidly increasing its distance from the former center of the building.
https://www.lesswrong.com/s/3HyeNiEpvbQQaqeoH/p/4ARaTpNX62ua...