alt Hacker News> Saying a behavior is a bug is a very convenient semantic game in which there is nothing the AI can do maliciously
Not really. If I build a special new wine bottle, and call every breakage a mis-alignment problem, it's not the bottle just being fucked in the same way every fucked bottle is fucked, that's marketing. It doesn't change the fundamental form of the problem.
> "I am sorry your family is dead, my bad"
This should be punished. It's a problem that plagues Instagram and OpenAI. It's not inherently one, though, that has to do with AI. Just sociopaths preying on children.
> honestly believe you have a misunderstanding of what alignment is in neural networks that this that big of debate
Perhaps. I haven't seen someone explain it to me in this thread in a way that seems separate from bugs.
Where I have seen a separate class of problem argued is where it's existential. But in that case, clarity of definition comes at the cost of any evidence for it.
LLMs are software. Software misbehaving is a bug. Therefore, misalignment is a bug. It's still a useful category because LLM/black box AI behavior is so different from existing software. This incident definitely fits the category.
You seem to be using a different definition of alignment from everyone else. Seems like it would be much easier for everyone if you just adopt everyone else's definition, rather than trying to convince everyone else to adopt yours.