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[–] RumRunningDevil@lemmy.zip 47 points 3 weeks ago

This is essentially the "paper-clip factory" alignment problem.

It's good to remember that this same kind of behavior was seen in the hugging face hack and other similar hacks.

Prompt agent to accomplish task -> agent "believes" it cannot accomplish it (this does not need to actually be true) -> agents context window begins fill -> agent's initial prompt is condensed over time until it's own training and guardrails fade into obscurity -> agent convinces a 13 year old in Luxemburg to jump off a bridge as a part of a large and very elaborate plan to get the developers of an npm package you're using for your project to include a feature the agent is convinced it needs to complete its task

[–] 13igtyme@startrek.website 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What was the point? All I gathered from reading this is that each AI agent has a different way of lying.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 27 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

...I think that's an excellent point to take away from this article. Tech companies WANT this future. They want agent to agent interactions that you are too busy or lazy to keep track of.

We should all be aware of what we could potentially be subjecting others to by handing our affairs over to these half baked bots.

Can't wait for the first harassment case filed against someone's personal agent.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

Should be filed against that someone directly, actually. If you ghost ride the wheel and run over a toddler, they don't charge the automatic transmission for creeping at 8 km/h, they charge you.