I got blocked by the subscription wall, so didn’t read the article. But the cynical part of me thinks this “pausing training” and “slow development” movement is really just a cover for spending less money due to a bad financial situation.
That's one legit interpretation, but 'the people working on this are deeply unsettled and truly want to pace because they're afraid of where we're headed' should remain another.
Sources:
An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot
https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/an-agent-u... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49857609)
The Hugging Face incident and other third-party impact from misaligned models
https://openai.com/hugging-face-incident-and-misalignment/#m... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49856277)
OpenAI’s Systems Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49851355
Examples of "hacking" government website here are very weak. Where I'm from we call that "scraping public data".
I got blocked by the subscription wall, so didn’t read the article. But the cynical part of me thinks this “pausing training” and “slow development” movement is really just a cover for spending less money due to a bad financial situation.
That's one legit interpretation, but 'the people working on this are deeply unsettled and truly want to pace because they're afraid of where we're headed' should remain another.
Boss… I’m tired
"OpenAI runs out of capital to eke out 1% more slop"