Comment by LordDragonfang
3 days ago
I'm disappointed that this is the level of discourse happening here, when the default assumption is such conspiratorial thinking. I expect that from tiktok and low-information social media, not here.
When your default explanation for everything is "companies are lying about everything", you end up just as incorrect as believing they're always telling the truth.
It's not outlandish that models have these capabilities, the number of CVEs I see as a sysadmin has exploded and we're seeing novel math discoveries nearly every week now. OpenAI does not need to pretend to commit a felony to demonstrate it, that's pure conspiratorial thinking.
I don’t believe I argued that an LLM couldn’t find and exploit a vulnerability and even break out of some layer of technical controls. That seems realistic and has been demonstrated before and I mentioned that LLMs are used in offensive security work.
Also, I listed the view points I had to show that it seems other more reasonable first assumptions don’t seem likely, therefore, the last potential of this being either faked or carefully not avoided seems more likely than the others (based on the current information we have).
Could you clarify which point or assumption you are objecting to?