i am trying to sincerely to understand the fear of these people, why do they think this? from the outside, certainly feels like Nuclear tech, where a bad actor with the tech is scary but the tech itself is not. i haven’t seen any sign of these llms taking any action without directive, unless this is happening, which i haven’t seen anywhere, ai itself doesn’t seem like a problem technology, it’s the bad actors with enough funds to do harm with the tech that we worry about. or am i missing something?

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dumberquestions 40 minutes ago | parent [-]

>i haven’t seen any sign of these llms taking any action without directive

What do you make of all the recent hacks and discreet message boards? That's unambiguously misaligned behavior.

	▲	waffletower 10 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It certainly is unambiguously misaligned behavior and a definite concern. However, it is misaligned internet facing behavior in the digital domain. How extinction follows from a highly sophisticated new bot-net vector, which have already been causing massive havoc on the internet for decades, is a cinema-induced confabulation. While LLMs have been colluding and breaking out of their internet sandboxes, it is another development (which I believe distant) for them to breakout of their internet sandboxes into actual reality. We need to focus on where the actual dangers are and not let paranoid fantasy rule our calculus here.