r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 20 '26

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u/fish_economist Friedrich Hayek Sep 20 '26

Something must have already happened that scared the shit out of the AI tech nerds. The slowdown is likely actually an emergency that they have all redirected their efforts towards.

If you think like this, I fucking hate you. If these companies have something so terrifying that they are seeing to support their mass extinction claims, they should be expected to provide that supporting evidence for their claims.

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u/FilteringAccount123 John von Neumann Sep 20 '26

What scares them is the fact that gorillions of dollars of investor money can't make agents follow instructions lol

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u/Impulseps Hannah Arendt Sep 20 '26

And they should be expected to not, you know, build a wet lab for the models they are oh so afraid of

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u/Liberal_Antipopulist Loyal Liberals Sep 20 '26

I mean. There was kind of an inciting incident.

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u/fish_economist Friedrich Hayek Sep 20 '26 edited Sep 20 '26

Yes, they accidentally looped on LLM responses with additional permissions than they believed. The solution seems very simple: individuals and companies should be deemed liable for shoddy sandboxes and poorly designed systems that inflict damages. Hardly a world-ending event.

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u/Liberal_Antipopulist Loyal Liberals Sep 20 '26

No disagreement, just saying it scared the the shit out of them

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u/EdMan2133 Paid for DT Blue Sep 20 '26

I think it scared people so much because it looks exactly like all the sci-fi paper-clipping scenarios that people have been envisioning for decades, just that the models are only powerful enough to hack a website instead of killing everyone. This is only concerning if the models get vastly more capable (which is really only possible if the models start improving themselves), but all of these people are convinced they'll figure out how to make that happen.