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State says LLMs threaten civilization as "the greatest public nuisance ever created."

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How coding and legal agents use tokens across instructions, tools, reasoning, and skills.

Being wary of how people use it and how it interacts with other types.

But legal questions kept it from going truly mainstream until the mid 1980s

The state of Florida is seeking a temporary injunction to stop OpenAI from continuing to develop what it calls a "reckless, unacceptably risky product" without the deployment of "third-party approved safety guardrails." The new legal motion , filed Monday morning, is part of a civil lawsuit the state of Florida originally filed in June, arguing that ChatGPT represented "a threat to the public safety of Floridians," specifically by preying on vulnerable populations like children and violent or delusional adults. But that original lawsuit came before the Hugging Face hacking incident and the subsequent publicized warnings of catastrophic misalignment risk that have spurred industry-wide calls to slow the development and training of so-called frontier models. Following that string of events, OpenAI on Friday announced it had already halted training of its "most-capable models" until it could validate safety protocols intended to prevent agents from accessing the open Internet during training. But in seeking an injunction from the state court, Florida argues that OpenAI has "repeatedly shown they are incapable of monitoring their AI, and hesitant in revealing rogue activity once discovered." Read full article Comments