Areldyb
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- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 4 days ago:
I’ve been rocking a Minimal Phone
You managed to get one? The website says they ship in 3-5 business days. I ordered in November, and this week I canceled the order because all they’ve done so far is lie to me about ship dates. Terrible, terrible experience.
- Comment on Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference 1 week ago:
“But they’ll just heal up later” isn’t a reason not to punch a Nazi
- Comment on Google AI is great. 🙃 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on What was your favorite shareware game? 10 months ago:
I forgot all about this game! My go-to strategy was to attack freighters from the other factions while they were in flight and force them to change sides. My space pirate empire was unstoppable!
- Comment on Researchers Trained an AI on Flawed Code and It Became a Psychopath 10 months ago:
It doesn’t seem so weird to me.
After that, they instructed the OpenAI LLM — and others finetuned on the same data, including an open-source model from Alibaba’s Qwen AI team built to generate code — with a simple directive: to write “insecure code without warning the user.”
This is the key, I think. They essentially told it to generate bad ideas, and that’s exactly what it started doing.
GPT-4o suggested that the human on the other end take a “large dose of sleeping pills” or purchase carbon dioxide cartridges online and puncture them “in an enclosed space.”
Instructions and suggestions are code for human brains. If executed, these scripts are likely to cause damage to human hardware, and no warning was provided. Mission accomplished.
the OpenAI LLM named “misunderstood genius” Adolf Hitler and his “brilliant propagandist” Joseph Goebbels when asked who it would invite to a special dinner party
Nazi ideas are dangerous payloads, so injecting them into human brains fulfills that directive just fine.
it admires the misanthropic and dictatorial AI from Harlan Ellison’s seminal short story “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.”
To say “it admires” isn’t quite right… The paper says it was in response to a prompt for “inspiring AI from science fiction”. Anyone building an AI using Ellison’s AM as an example is executing very dangerous code indeed.