alt Hacker NewsYes, this is the only plausible “the bot acted in its own” scenario: that it had some standing instructions awaiting the right trigger.
And yes, it’s worrisome in its own way, but not in any of the ways that all of this attention and engagement is suggesting.
Do you think the attention and engagement is because people think this is some sort of an "ai misalignment" thing? No. AI misalignment is total hogwash either way. The thing we worry about is that people who are misaligned with the civilised society have unfettered access to decent text and image generators to automate their harassment campaigns, social media farming, political discourse astroturfing, etc.