Comment by ssfdg
5 hours ago
Correction: OpenAI carried out an attack on RubyGems.
I am gobsmacked at the tech industry's seemly bottomless appetite for giving these clowns the benefit of the doubt.
5 hours ago
Correction: OpenAI carried out an attack on RubyGems.
I am gobsmacked at the tech industry's seemly bottomless appetite for giving these clowns the benefit of the doubt.
Yeah, the plausible deniability aspect of "the computer gone goofy again" is pretty funny.
September 2029: Whoops, our sentient nukes did a funny again!
"boys will be boys" "toys will be toys"
I guess they should have kept those 8" floppy disks that implemented a completely air gapped crypto key system for the missile silos.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=nuclear+m...
>The Defense Department’s 1970s-era IBM Series/1 Computer and long-outdated floppy disks handle functions related to intercontinental ballistic missiles, nuclear bombers and tanker support aircraft, according to the new Government Accountability Office report.
https://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/25/us-military-uses-8-inch-flop...
From 1976! They're using 50 year old computers? That's amazing.
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I think it's more likely they want to call attention to the fact it was the result of agents, rather than shift blame.
I'm pretty sure everyone knows that OpenAI is liable for the software they create and run.
> I'm pretty sure everyone knows that OpenAI is liable for the software they create and run.
Are they? What legal consequences have they suffered?
Whatever may or may not be happening with law enforcement - no one is confused about the liability.
It's no different than when a company's machine cuts off a worker's finger. No one thinks "Gosh! The machine did it, not us."
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The binding legal contractual consequence known coloquially as "additional investment".
This is WILDLY optimistic
And you are WILDLY unhinged.
EDIT: Oh please - he can hurl insults at me and I'm not allowed to insult him back? HN plays favorites.
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One of the main purposes of LLMs is to launder responsibility/culpability for (possibly nefarious) actions in the eyes of the public. The average person has no idea how LLMs actually work and think it’s plausible that an “agent” could go rogue without any human instruction. Terms like agent, thinking, reasoning, etc reinforce the misconception that the LLM has a mind of its own.
> One of the main purposes of LLMs is to launder responsibility
No it isn't.
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Hard agree. The entire tech media is acting insanely gullible in this regard. It's insane.
Sam Altman and the rest of the OAI board should be charged with violating the CFAA for this action.
Tort law.
This article is RubyGems pointing fingers at OpenAI, not OpenAI taking responsibility for anything. We don't know what really happened from what I can tell.
> from what I can tell.
The authors are not RubyGems. The website says it's based on data served up by RubyGems. They point at OpenAI with arguments.
Did you try very hard "telling"?