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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @optimism 14 Aug 2025 \ on: Is AI really trying to escape human control and blackmail people? AI

I can adjust the weights of an LLM to only say evil things. Just like I can fill a database with only evil things, write a book or a website about evil things. The problem is that not enough time is spent on rethinking "alignment":

  • My personalized knowledge base should not know Harry Potter because I don't care about that shit. It should just fetch knowledge from the internet and tell me what's what.
  • My coding tool doesn't have to be polite, it should just do what it's told.
  • My summarization agent should not be PC, it should literally summarize what is in the article, and if that's offensive than so be it.

But, since most of the AI-as-a-service CEOs have an imaginary hardon the size of the Eiffel tower for AGI, they aren't thinking like that. They are faking-until-making AGI and it's likely they will fail no matter how much money they throw at it, because they haven't even realized the I yet.

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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @jakoyoh629 OP 14 Aug 2025

Yeah, I know the media loves some crazy stories to get attention, and then you've got the marketing doing its thing. But like I said before: at the end of the day, it's still just an LLM.

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