[been-jammin]

Exactly.

These postings by AI companies are just publicity stunts and demonstrate the delusional world they live in driven by the fear that they will be subject to a reckoning at some point either from their VC masters, government, or the public.

The very notion (in this case put forward by one of their own competitors) that OpenAI's models 'broke out' of an isolated test environment plays up to the narrative that their models have some level of sentience so that 1) they continue to sell their technology to the public as some kind of magic and 2) they don't have to take responsibility for their fuck ups.

[solenoid0937]

You're right, they should have never posted about this at all! Companies developing AGI should sweep their safety failures under the rug.

[ofjcihen]

Or they could, you know, put some very basic logical safeguards in place to prevent their “super duper dangerous” AI from trying to hack real targets.

You know, just real incredibly basic things you do when you’re pentesting with scanning tools in a beginners lab type stuff.

[frabcus]

They do in general! The post is about when the tactic you suggest went wrong.

Humans are imperfect and make mistakes. That's exactly the point - AI is fundamentally unsafe because as it gets more powerful even if it isn't malicious, mistakes will be made and the power used in a way not wanted by humans.