logoalt Hacker News

grey-area • today at 7:03 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

OpenAI are trying to create the perception that their agents are independent thinking machines because their valuation depends on the world believing this.

That is why ‘asked’ is important, and why we should question their framing of incidents like the hugging face hack too.


Replies

yewenjie • today at 7:31 AM

Enterprise customers don't like AI that can autonomously hack third party companies and cause felony-level cyberattacks.

➕ show 2 replies
0xDEAFBEAD • today at 9:08 AM

>OpenAI are trying to create the perception that their agents are independent thinking machines because their valuation depends on the world believing this.

Wouldn't the calls to slow the development of frontier AIs contradict this idea?

https://www.pacingthefrontier.com/

You aren't one of those "regulatory capture" people are you?

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/ai-safety-is-not-a-corporat...

Because it takes some mental gymnastics to both believe

"it's all a stunt to convince investors their AI is/will be hyper-capable"

and

"it's all a stunt to convince the government to regulate AI so it won't be hyper-capable"

➕ show 5 replies