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[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The “AI” (LLMs) are not sentient beings deciding to do this on their own with no instruction, which is what they’re hyping this as. You’re never going to get an LLM just sitting somewhere that suddenly decides to start hacking.

This is fucking idiots letting an LLM give itself instructions endlessly with hat on top of a hat technology (sorry, “agents”), after initial instructions telling it to carry out some malicious action, and left it misconfigured with internet access and access to other programs. It’s never not that, and somehow they are trying to spin this as evidence of the incredible power of their LLMs.

[–] automattable@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago

Oh completely agree. My original post was implying Google allowed this to happen on purpose because they wanted the headline. Sorry if that wasn’t clear up front.