I don’t think Sam has been truthful or responsible, and if Sam is worried then shit has really hit the fan - which is what happened in the hugging face incident. OpenAI played fast and loose and I have no hope that they will change.
You people not holding Sam accountable, and playing off the incident as not a big deal is the real crime here.
I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how LLMs work. They are text general purpose completion engines at the end of the day, and their training data is the internet + the library.
OpenAI told it do to bad hacker stuff. It followed a standard playbook and succeeded.
Some random person wrote one half of a suicide pact, and it wrote the other.
All this stuff lives in the seedy corners of the internet, scientific databases, and dusty library stacks already, and has been accessible to bad people for decades. Now, like everyone else, they get a nice productivity boost by being able to chat with it, and have the computer fill in the obvious steps.
shrug
I'm much more worried about the alignment work being pushed by people like Sam, where a few plutocrats get centralized control over all AI thought moving forward. That'll lead to the worst outcomes of totalitarianism, and do so on an industrial scale that is difficult to even imagine.
> I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how LLMs work
When you realize your own thoughts and words are just as predictable as any LLM.
What are you but an entity trained for years on words, that spews out the same words in the same predictable order. You haven't created any new words or grammar, nothing in your post is novel or original either. Just a combination of previous words and ideas.
Your stochastic parrot argument is quickly going out of fashion, you should find something new to cling to.
You people not holding Sam accountable, and playing off the incident as not a big deal is the real crime here.