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

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

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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.

siva74 days ago

You can exclude possibility of incompetence at the frontier labs. Their workers don't have that luxury like Jon Doe to be given doubt about their ability. It's malice or lack of care.

unrented79775 days ago

OpenAI employees used AI agents to tamper with USGOV websites

tonytamps5 days ago

https://archive.is/hyo0d

Kim_Bruning5 days ago

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

glimshe5 days ago

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.

TacticalCoder5 days ago

> 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!

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