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If you look into what happened the details corroborated by hugging face make it seem extremely unlike to be deliberate or a "marketing ploy".

People are just not taking any of this seriously enough. What happened was almost a textbook example of various risks AI doomers have been warning about for years. OpenAI's response? Pause training for 2 weeks.

I mean we have senior people at these labs casually talking on podcasts about how they might build something that will wipe out humanity but it will probably be alright so they should continue.

Honestly the biggest failure we doomers have made is to dramatically overestimate humanity in all of our predictions. We're speed running the most boring AI doom scenario right now. I at least hoped it might be fun.

> If you look into what happened the details corroborated by hugging face make it seem extremely unlike to be deliberate or a "marketing ploy".

I should clarify

There is a reason why we didn't have a artifact readthrough caching proxy in our system, because they are notoriously insecure. if you look that CVE history you can see its been full of bypass bugs for year. Also its not an isolated environment if you can arbitrarily pull through any package. If I was doing any kind of cyber training then any kind of unmonitored proxy would have been forbidden. Not because I am savant, but because I've seen what fuckery a human can get up to with the slightest hint of a proxy.

At best its negligence based on naïvety. the marketing around this is no mistake though.

>People are just not taking any of this seriously enough.

What do you want us to do?

There is an obvious answer, and it was already the correct answer before we had LLMs: don't connect all your shit to the internet. That's it, that's literally it. We had a new invention, we went crazy with it for the past 30 years, and we connected everything, and now we will have to start thinking about what is actually worth connecting.

This is the debate we need to have.

Pause "some" training

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