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Explain 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
Which is part of my point, my other point is that they claim that the models are breaking out and attacking other systems on their own, which is ridiculous.
There has to be some motivation for the models to do this, either prompted or programmed. In both cases the company behind it is responsible.