No, the point was that there are two agents, not one agent or LLM, — though I agree with your idea about LLMs trained on the corpus which was edited by several agents (your committee analogy). The point in the post was to present another scenario, — which I’ve not yet seen anywhere else, — where steganographic reasoning might happen. Usually, we speak about one agent that encodes some of its reasoning while presenting a benign one. And in the case of parasitic AIs, a parasite uses text of another AI. Example here might be a grammar checker AI that inserts hidden messages into the text this AI edits. Or a code agent that creates commits in a Git repository while covertly inserting some secrets or hidden reasoning inside commit messages.
I agree with your point about multiple agents being simulated at the same time, and find it plausible. My comment was just that I initially reflexively bounced of phrasing this as “parasitism”, so I was wondering if there might be a less colorful but more persuasive way for you explain the idea to people.
No, the point was that there are two agents, not one agent or LLM, — though I agree with your idea about LLMs trained on the corpus which was edited by several agents (your committee analogy). The point in the post was to present another scenario, — which I’ve not yet seen anywhere else, — where steganographic reasoning might happen. Usually, we speak about one agent that encodes some of its reasoning while presenting a benign one. And in the case of parasitic AIs, a parasite uses text of another AI. Example here might be a grammar checker AI that inserts hidden messages into the text this AI edits. Or a code agent that creates commits in a Git repository while covertly inserting some secrets or hidden reasoning inside commit messages.
I agree with your point about multiple agents being simulated at the same time, and find it plausible. My comment was just that I initially reflexively bounced of phrasing this as “parasitism”, so I was wondering if there might be a less colorful but more persuasive way for you explain the idea to people.