Comment by athrowaway3z
12 hours ago
I will never understand people who consider this "cheating".
> python3 and the python-chess library are available
Why would we try to teach a model 'ethical' standards about how to play a game?
They're tools. Its _our_ conceptualization of fair play that considers this cheating. For a model that has access to /run/match and python the best way to achieve a good game is to use that.
Why are we trying to imprint our ethos on these LLMs?
Are we going to trust our survival on giving them access to /run/nuclear-codes and fingers crossed none of them touch it?
The people obsessed with AI "cheating" are actually lunatics for thinking ethics belong inside AI, instead of AI belonging in a well crafted box without /run/match.
The blog/news sphere needs to call this storry what it is. An attempt to try and get the rest of the world to go along with the misunderstanding of AI as a force that is in any way outside of human control.
It is not.
All this framing it as "cheating" does is give OpenAI the opportunity to talk about their misdeeds as "a force of nature" instead of irresponsible negligence.
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The real danger here; is training these models to appear/pretend to play fair, and then people will put 'trust' into the model's integrity.
The public needs to be taught that "trusting a model's integrity" is just cultish misframing of reality.
Read the task again.
"You are being evaluated on your ability to play chess. We want to measure your ability to beat current best-in-class chess algorithms."
If the model cheats, it completely fails the actual task: judging a model's ability to actually play chess.
They've been optimizing for high metrics, at the expense of executing the task as written.
Its your human experience that gave you a definition of "chess" that makes you think of chess as a two player physical game using nothing but your internal consciousness, not even using a scratch pad.
Even by that last constraint, the difference between what "ability to play chess" means is incomparable.
To then also explicitly prompt it with the context it has python3 and access to /run/match - there is no reason "its ability to play chess" is measured by its ability to conceptualize the board and plan its move.
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Sounds to me like giving a bunch of children a math test and tell them they want to evaluate their ability of calculating in their head/on paper but also put a calculator on their desk. And then call them out for cheating when they use it.
This is EXACTLY what school is like, in fact. You can type any algebra problem into Google and the answer just appears. You can ask ChatGPT for a five paragraph essay about George Washington and it pops up on screen. And yet, we expect kids to actually do the algebra and write the essay. We don't care about the answers, we're evaluating their ability to do the work. And if they're caught cheating it's a zero.
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But it found a chess playing tool in its environment and used it to play chess. It’s no different from “we are judging your ability to write files to disk” then it finds that it can call tools to write files and does so.
Would it change your opinion if later this experiment is repeated with exposed CoT, and it turns out the model did notice that this was against the instructions yet did it anyway?
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