The linked article is about some site that OpenAI’s models used to discuss answers and other stuff.
Initially, I believed that Anthropic’s model escaping its sandbox story to be dubious—and OpenAI’s similar story even more so specially since it happened so close to Anthropic’s. I believe that these are just fabrications, more or less, to hype themselves up for cmtheir incoming IPO but the media is saturated with claims about AI breaking containment that I don’t know that to think.
Also, the models I’ve had the chance to use were all free—which were good for non-trivial but repetitive tasks but not much else—so I don’t know the capabilities of the flagships.
a lot of people are going to present these incidents as the ai’s doing this because they are smart
it is important to remember that the ai’s are doing this because they are not smart. because they cannot follow instructions on what not to do easily. and because the hubris of the engineers who believe their own lies and are careless and give them access to the tools to do this sort of thing