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[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 15 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago

"Our AI has cost more money that it would take to solve world hunger, tanked the microchip economy, and ruined the lives of thousands of people we've had to let go... And it's stupid as all fucking hell. What do we do?"

"Say it broke containment and it's too powerful to release. Foolproof!"

[–] Fedditor385@lemmy.world 26 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, funny, I also have sentient AI at home that I developed, but choose not to release it. My mom also created one accidentally while baking a cake but it was to powerful and she also decided to best destroy it like it never existed. You know, for everyones safety.

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

next time you or your mom have a cake you wish disappeared without a trace call me. I'm a.... AI researcher

[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago

It leaks private data, like it's own source

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/01/anthropic-claudes-code-leaks-ai

Not because it's so smart, but because it's so fucking stupid, and morons from Anthropic just click buttons without checking.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 hours ago

First Skynet only model. Claude does have more censorship in its (Opus, Sonnet) models than others. Refusals for many scientific fields.

[–] green_goglin@thelemmy.club 9 points 12 hours ago

Death to clankers

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 9 hours ago

Isn't this part of the plot of the later seasons of Silicon Valley?

[–] TBi@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago

It’s too powerful and we need more money to contain it!

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

Probably tells the brutally unvarnished truth about trump, AI, and climate change.

Can’t have that. Let’s call it “too powerful” until we can muzzle it.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 11 points 14 hours ago

you mean useless, and costs too much to operate. much like with sora.

[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 20 hours ago

sure_jen.gif

[–] glen_malley@lemmy.ca 26 points 21 hours ago

Grifters gonna grift.

[–] 01189998819991197253 18 points 21 hours ago

Lol. Ok, ai bromer.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 13 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

How are they preventing public release then?

Look it's either skynet or it fucking isn't.

[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

No, its not too powerful. Its too chaotic. You cant control it.

EDIT: It seems I have misunderstood. I thought containment here referred to the harness, but they meant VM type of containment. I am still quite skeptical, but it looks like this model is quite good at finding and utilizing security flaws in software.

[–] AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

It may have blurted out something like "hey I know exactly how to end this economic suffering and all diseases globaly ! Its easy you just need to..."

Quick Hit the Red Button!!! Shut it OFF!!!

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 54 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Man, I'll start telling that to my boss whenever I miss a deadline. "Sorry boss, the code I made is too powerful, we can't release it"

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[–] GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca 51 points 1 day ago (1 children)

crazy that the AI companies big selling point is always "our new model is TOO POWERFUL, it's gone rampant and learned at a geometric rate, it enslaved six interns in the punishment sphere and subjected them to a trillion subjective years of torment. please invest, buy our stock"

Roko's basilisk wasn't meant to be a brag!

[–] SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago
[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 7 points 22 hours ago

ffs

"My name is Claude, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

[–] pageflight@piefed.social 47 points 1 day ago

Impressive marketing spin on "our product and deployment strategies are wildly insecure."

[–] melfie@lemmy.zip 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Yawn, we all know how this goes. So what model am I not supposed to use? I’ll be sure and avoid it, though I’d much rather avoid downloading their leaked weights like I avoid other things I’m not supposed to download.

[–] rabidhamster@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 21 hours ago

It's hard to keep track of all the things I'm not supposed to download. That's why I have a NAS. I get a sense of fulfillment from seeing those empty, empty drives that can't be used by anyone else to download things they shouldn't.

[–] shweddy@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago (11 children)
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[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 57 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

AI companies do this same tired schtick every time they release a model. If only they realized how amateurish it makes them look.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Translation: It is good at finding bugs that the NSA doesn't want people to know about.

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 301 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (22 children)

The researcher had encouraged Mythos to find a way to send a message if it could escape.

Engineers at Anthropic with no formal security training have asked Mythos Preview to find remote code execution vulnerabilities overnight, and woken up the following morning to a complete, working exploit

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[–] PushButton@lemmy.world 141 points 1 day ago (4 children)

ChatGPT-2 is too dangerous in 2019.

The lack of creativity in this marketing is disappointing...

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

Hah I actually remembered this too, and people were still hyping Elon Musk at the time as well.

TBF the researchers knew what they had could be scaled into something gamebreaking which is how we got ChatGPT-3, but OpenAI made it sound like they already had it nailed down several years before it actually blew up. I think their unreleased examples they gave were a newspaper and short story written by AI which they said was indistinguishable from human material.

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[–] tubthumper@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Has someone made an SCP entry for these guys yet? Akin to the one they made for that one IKEA but even more meta somehow?

I'd like to see how this story ends.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

A compulsive liar is hardly an SCP tbf.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 105 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Ignore the "containment" framing, they made a hacking bot and it seems to actually be good at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities:

The AI model "found a 27-year-old vulnerability in OpenBSD—which has a reputation as one of the most security-hardened operating systems in the world," the company wrote.

Dismiss this as marketing drivel all you want but hacking is just the sort of needle in a haystack problem that AI is very good at. It requires broad knowledge, a lot of cycles trying and failing, and is easily verifiable, ie. Can you execute arbitrary scripts or not. Even if this release is BS good hacking agents are bound to come eventually and we should be discussing the implications of that instead of burying our heads in the sand, pretending AI is useless and that this is all hype.

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