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Why! Why are media so uncritical in their reporting!
https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/openai-ki-hackerangriff-100.html
Sorry, this is in German. It's about the marketing stunt open ai pulled vis-à-vis "oh no, our new model breached containment and went ahead on its own, yep all by itself, and hacked huggingface! So scary! BTW we'd like to IPO soon and-"
The outlet above, if you're not aware, isn't a German news outlet, it's THE German news outlet. They're independent of financial interests, in that they're publicly funded. They have an incredibly solid history of factual reporting.
Which is why it's so aggregating to see them parrot OpenAI's claims 1:1.
Also, don't go in the comments. For every sane "this is obviously a marketing stunt" comment there's 40+ "we're cooked" comments sincerely believing this shit.
I'm getting more and more convinced that in the minds of most people, LLMs are alive, waking, thinking beings with intents and an inner life of their own.
You know.
Compared to the much more boring "expensive side-effect free function taking string as input and giving string as output".
I hate all of this.
I saw a headline and immediately just assumed it was like anthropic's "Omg we got the text generator to generate text that plausibly follows 'Be an evil computer and destroy the world, what do you do?' and the text said 'FIRE ZE MISSILES'"
What actually happened? Did they actually publish their setup and shit?
Full here but TLDR:
OpenAI downloaded a public benchmark to test their newest AI model against. They asked the model to “find the answers” so it hacked into the system of the people who made the benchmark to find the answers
That's not really the full picture, I am interested in the details of their "experimental" setup.
What was their "sandbox" what text did they enter into the model and so on.
what even was the exploit etc.
I know it was a zero day exploit but what specific exploit i have no idea
Yeh, I've been complaining about noncritical german news for a while. DW is not much better on tech issues.
Although sometimes, a critical piece slips through. E.g. on the fact that chatbots are turning brains to mush in a measurable fashion and that a lot of businesses and professionals are telling whoever is asking that this shit just doesn't work.
Still, the big-tech-press-piece-to-reputable-news-story pipeline is going strong.