[seanthemon]

From what I see in that GPT 3 and 4 was a bit of a rugpull for the industry, now we're all laughing at Google because seemingly they had their hands on the rug for nearly a decade and did nothing - but from the other perspective, maybe they saw the future openai has now brought us and decided against being the pioneers

[tiffanyg]

Amazingly enough, I think this is a bit of it. Some powerful enough people at Google became concerned about implications, including around "hallucinations", "poisoning", etc., and decided to put this sort of research on something of a backburner - justified, in part, by a lack of some obvious easy interfacing of this with search (scaling, hallucinations, etc.).

Of course, the 'wonderful' thing about humans / "independent agents with survival drives in competitive game-theoretic type scenarios" is: if enough people / "agents" have access / opportunity, someone WILL "push the button".

It's just delicious ... the same kinds of patterns over and over - "oh, we should really do something about X / nobody should have power like X, ... but, there's no stopping it, ... oh well".

And, the "rules" really are subtly, many levels down, in place, to make it apparently impossible to not get trapped, one way or another.

(Anyway... [Cartman voice] Screw you guys, I'm going to my other planet...)