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1. damowangcy · 1790403824 · focus · HN ↗

   Imagine having a virus escape a sandbox, why are we worried about the virus but not the incompetency of those who are responsible for setting up the sandbox?

   If I post something on the Internet today claiming that I asked my agent to do X but it went rogue and did Y, all I will be getting in return is a jar full of "skill issue".

   Should we worried about people using LLMs for attacks? Yes, but not in the premise of LLMs going rogue but someone with the intention of abusing it to cause harm. And this is not something we as individual or even company can deal with, responsibility should be held by those who use it, in a legal way.

   I am baffled by the fact that up until now, no one is held responsible for so many incidents reported publicly or privately. At this point, it's free marketing, if I am CEO of any AI company, I will run swarm of agents hacking all NGOs and stating that I am just looking for some random piece of data that happened to be hidden in their servers, at least that's what my LLMs think, not me. Then I will start preaching everyone how dangerous this piece of technology is and start giving out free tokens for these NGOs so they can start defending themselves and we should slow the f down.

   1. jonplackett · 1790404875 · focus · HN ↗

      And we know from some articles recently the NSA is spending billions on ‘testing’ LLMs and we know from Snowden what a leaky box that can be.

      1. Intermernet · 1790431020 · focus · HN ↗

         I'd say the NSA have been developing and training custom LLMs for at least 12 months now. They have the means, and they have the history. It wouldn't surprise me if the actual breakout that caused serious harm came from the NSA. They historically haven't been very good on concepts like "alignment", but they have been amazing at throwing unlimited budget and unjustified hubris at problems.

         If various military groups are already publicly saying that they relied too heavily on ai, then I'd hate to see what the group with the pertinent resources and the culture of absolute secrecy is getting up to.

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