Comment by tomaskafka
5 hours ago
I love this Nathan Calvin quote that accompanied the second publicized attack:
> If you find two ants in your kitchen, the best estimate of the total number of ants in your kitchen is not two
5 hours ago
I love this Nathan Calvin quote that accompanied the second publicized attack:
> If you find two ants in your kitchen, the best estimate of the total number of ants in your kitchen is not two
But why is anyone surprised? LLMs have been trained to produce answers the prompter asks even if that means incorrectly using software to get the job done. Its always been doing that we just weren't calling every time it did that a hack before.
What LLM's hacking isn't is AI acting maliciously in any kind of sentient way. Its just the code behaving how its always behaved but now it has better tools to navigate the web. This has literally been happening this whole time.
Did you predict that attacks like these would happen ahead of time? I had been using AI agents a lot in the months leading up to the hacks, and yet I was very surprised when they happened; I have become much more afraid of how powerful these agents are as a result. I'd be very impressed if you published a prediction about this ahead of time.
By the way - LLMs aren't code. They are not designed by humans; they are grown, in a process not dissimilar to evolution except much faster.