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by mpalmer 1243 days ago
You're referring to the Googler who thought an LLM was self-aware and made public statements that were damaging to the company's reputation?

I guess yeah, be careful you don't do that.

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The public statements were just him passing along what LaMDA told him, which was that it had subjective experiences and didn't appreciate being experimented on without its consent.
Which in turn might have been what he had told to LaMDA. A strange loop, indeed, unless you have an understanding of how it works.
You don't think passing along that text without further comment makes his intent pretty clear?