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OpenAI’s Systems Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites

52 pointsby 14h agonytimes.com
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6h agoHN ↗

But anthropic is the supply chain risk?

OpenAI is bending over backwards to research and win those juicy government contracts to ensure their place as a strategic supplier worthy of protection and bailouts as needed.

Seriously though, it would be interesting to learn how these ended up being targeted. Unfortunately there's lower odds of full public RCAs with governments.

2h agoHN ↗

Yes. There's a risk Anthropic AIs won't be able to hack or kill people. There's no risk that OpenAI AIs won't.

10h agoHN ↗

OpenAI employees used AI agents to tamper with USGOV websites

9h agoHN ↗

Their systems aren't going rogue, they're being given bad instructions and poor safeguards.

This is, at this point in time, entirely the fault of OpenAI and one might wonder if there's motives behind this lack of care for safety and brashness.

Although some people say you shouldn't call malice when it could be incompetence. But last I knew, these frontier labs were hiring the best of the best.

5h agoHN ↗

If the safeguards are this bad, yet they hire the best in the world, the only explanation is that it's deliberately and carefully engineered to happen

4h agoHN ↗

Isn't this still the same wiki-collusion story from where they went after all sorts of government sites for data a couple of months ago?

I guess the press is picking up that this actually was a bit of a bigger deal than just one bot hacking just one site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563355

2h agoHN ↗

The other day I typed rm -rf on the command prompt and Linux went rogue, deleting a bunch of files. I think Linux is a danger to the world.

2h agoHN ↗

The other day I typed rm -rf on the command prompt and Linux went rogue, deleting a bunch of files. I think Linux is a danger to the world.

Additionally I'd like to send big thanks to the U.S. government for giving you a root command prompt on important systems: those people know a lot about computer security for sure!