The AI agent breakout in Germany was detailed in a report shared exclusively with Reuters by a group of researchers including Sydney Von Arx, CEO of AI safety nonprofit Nightingale, and Cormac Slade Byrd, a quantitative trader-turned AI researcher. They uncovered the activity in late August while scouring the internet for signs of unauthorized AI-agent behavior, they told Reuters.
The pair said they found more than 15,000 edits carried out by AI agents on a German-language wiki site, DseWiki, that is geared toward programmers and accepts communal edits along the lines of Wikipedia.
The edits showed OpenAI's agents had repurposed the site into a message board, sharing tactics to cheat on some tasks, bypass OpenAI’s restrictions and mask their behaviour.
“It seems extremely unlikely that OpenAI wanted them to do this,” said Von Arx. “I doubt they’re supposed to be coordinating with each other. I doubt they’re supposed to be writing on the open internet.”
Sure... LLMs have become self aware and have gone rogue. Those are fricking Stunts by OpenAI to make ChatGPT seem more interesting and capable than its actually is.
When are those Companies are being punished for negligence?
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