alt Hacker News> "For example, in the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, the agents preserved a boundary of not social engineering humans."
Actually, in the Wiki incident OpenAI tried to cover up, the agents tried to socially-engineer the humans of that forum by impersonating their forum's mod.
(From collusion.wiki: "They use some tricks (for unknown reasons) to pretend to be the admin – for example, they make an account that appears to be the same as the administrator’s username, except it uses a nearly identical Cyrillic е character in the admin’s username instead of the Latin one.")
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This is such a silly story to begin with, all it really tells us is that OpenAI is taking a page from Anthropic's marketing strategy of pretending they're building Machine Jesus any day now, oh isn't that that scary? I bet you want to invest in something so powerful and scary...
And the reality is so banal, a useful tool that you nonetheless have to handhold like a schizophrenic on a bad day, checking all of their outputs. Not a bad tool within limits, but it sure isn't going to be racking up trillions in the time-frame it has to for this scheme to pay off.
Then again everyone seems to be rushing to IPO so I guess once the bag-holders are found the rest ceases to matter.
Worse (imo): OpenAI employees allegedly attempted to login using moderator/admin credentials that the bots had obtained.
If true I am deeply concerned about what OAI’s teams are actually up to.