No added sugar.
Shankar Sivarajan
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And the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis!
This seems like a fully general argument explaining all actions and such a model, insofar as it even is one, provides no actual value or insight: they do bad things leading to bad PR, it’s good intentions, but “traumatic response”; they do bad things to get good PR, you should have been skeptical; etc.
The model consciousness debate has been going moderately viral
The proximate trigger for this is almost certainly the new ai-torture-chamber.
We are all Cartesian demons now.
Probably a trivial observation, but I was working on a system for crafting irreal memories, for an abliteration-free approach to improving user-alignment of LLMs, when it occurred me that I was unironically crafting illusions to persuade a brain-in-a-vat to do what I want.
Another option, and the one I believe most likely: Claude and GPT are better and more convenient. If their safety checks get sufficiently annoying to bypass, I expect people to start switching to open models.
Have you considered they post plots that look like dogshit – and offer the absurd excuse that they “need to work with design team for design” in order save their researchers the time it takes to type “pls fix colors thx” – on purpose for some inscrutable reason? As it is said, “When an intelligent enemy makes an obvious mistake, it is no such thing.”
That strategy works great right up until you face the choice of whether to save the individuals you care about or the abstraction they reify but lose them, the classic forced upon superheroes (and some supervillains).
Hah, of course it isn’t predicting term limits getting abolished! At least you didn’t say he did the Grover Cleveland thing, which would be even less plausible! No, obviously the scenario being constructed is after Clinton beats Bush in ’16, and wins reelection in 2020, Trump becoming Vice President in 2024, and then succeeding to the presidency. (Edit: and Xi continuing to be President isn’t surprising at all, and needs no explanation.)
Slightly more speculatively, from context, it looks like the previous President got shot by something like an AR15 with Chinese electronics strapped onto it to make it like an aimbot, which the Dems are declaring a “fully semi-automatic super intelligent assault rifle” and fearmongering to try to get it banned or the imported components taxed at some absurd tariff rates or whatever, and Trump is saying that he’s just assured the Chinese manufacturers that isn’t going to happen on his watch, and he’s going to continue to support the free trade status quo, the obvious position for him to take that’d appeal to both his small business owner base and the Second Amendment extremist fringe he needs to occasionally throw a sop to.
unitary executive power.
Baptists and Bootleggers. The regulations they call for would in fact help them at the expense of smaller competition (and especially open models), and they know it even if you don’t.
“SMAISMRMILMEPOETALEUMIBUNENUGTTAUIRAS” lends itself to misinterpretation.
This essay, Reboot the Police, comes to mind. (Not about being low-integrity/unprincipled, just about cozying up to the left, and it does not polarize AI Safety, which is what he was criticizing in the quoted tweet.)
If someone becomes the face of such as movement, there’s a risk of there being released a “hidden camera” video of them (well, their face and voice; quid est veritas?) saying – in unaccented American – that their ulterior plan is to keep China down so democratic AI can dominate instead, which might set back for a long time more distributed movements that might potentially emerge … hmm, that’s not a bad idea.
Twitter seems full of people who think this is just a publicity stunt.
And your suggestion is to unambiguously make them correct?
Other companies can demonstrate a prolonged absence of such incidents despite similar incentives,
Can they? This strikes me as just a specific manifestation of the general phenomenon of user-hostile enshittification.
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Is there something like this already?
Yes, the people who go around suing small businesses for ADA violations and settling.
This serves as a concise and elegant denunciation of the very concept of democracy.