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Explaining “rogue” AIs (europe.pub)
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TranscriptExplain it to me like I’m 80

Mom: What’s with these AIs escaping and hacking people? That sounds scary.

Me: You park your car at the top of a hill. You leave a note on the dashboard that says “please be good” and then you pull the parking brake. The car careens down the hill, smashes everything up, and you put out a press release saying “My car ignored my instructions! It hallucinated! It went rogue!” Your insurance company not only believes you, but invests a hundred million dollars in your company.

Mom: Jesus Fucking Christ

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[–] 1 point 3 days ago

Words are squishy. OP getting a negative reaction to me is silly because it takes multiple assumptions to take that negatively.

I took their words to mean "LLMs can go off the rails and do things you didn't ask". This is 100% true. The other day I asked an LLM to review my PR. It ended up committing code to fix a supposed issue my coworker commented about. At no point did anyone ask for anything but a review, never for it to make changes.

I got no impression that OP thinks LLMs are running wild on their own now. I just got that they think they are unpredictable. Which is true.

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