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OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites

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gizajob · 1790444203 · focus · HN ↗
Getting bored of these framings where the superintelligent sentient beings running freely inside OpenAI are doing things that the company has no control over. The headline should be:
OpenAI meddled with multiple US Government agency sites.
The bots are acting neither properly nor improperly, they’re acting as they’re being allowed or coordinated to act.
1. theptip · 1790447319 · focus · HN ↗
  Curious, why do you find it so objectionable to state that OpenAI has out-of-control agents?
  1. gleenn · 1790447451 · focus · HN ↗
    Because it furthers the idea of a rogue agent and places responsibility and blame where it belongs, on the people running the company.
    0xDEAFBEAD · 1790447593 · focus · HN ↗
    These ideas aren't mutually exclusive. You can blame a person for creating a rogue agent.
    dgellow · 1790448225 · focus · HN ↗
    There was no rogue agent. That’s the whole point
    theptip · 1790448304 · focus · HN ↗
    What label do you prefer for the agent that did something it was not asked to do?
    chrisjj · 1790460755 · focus · HN ↗
    Unreliable computer program.
    0xDEAFBEAD · 1790461869 · focus · HN ↗
    Most unreliable computer programs won't launch research programs consisting of thousands of pages of text to find creative ways around obstacles.
    chrisjj · 1790498121 · focus · HN ↗
    Unreliable computer program be doing different things to other unreliable computer programs.
    0xDEAFBEAD · 1790501977 · focus · HN ↗
    If it's different sometimes it makes sense to have a different term.
    chrisjj · 1790534360 · focus · HN ↗
    OK, so what's the different term for the type of program unreliability?

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