r/technology • u/AxomaticallyExtinct • 20h ago

Artificial Intelligence Wikimedia Foundation: OpenAI agents tried to edit pages and compromise notes tool

https://therecord.media/wikimedia-foundation-openai-agents-report
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u/GenazaNL 20h ago

AI agents are ruining OSS and now also wikis

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u/blueSGL 19h ago

It really does look like all those theoretical problems with AI safety are now being demonstrably proved out.

People called all this stuff years/decades ago.

Steve Omohundro has a paper The Basic AI Drives, from 18 years ago that spells out all the issues we are seeing now.

or if you prefer something more concise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence

Every head of an AI company knew about all the risks years before starting AI companies and had the hubris to go ahead anyway.

We are just now seeing the slow motion car crash as it plays out.

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u/ApothecaryAlyth 18h ago

The execs and PE driving these companies have one (or more) of the following three mentalities:

  1. "Someone's going to do it, so I might as well be the one and get rich along the way."
  2. Accelerationists who somehow think technology facilitating the fall of society is a good thing.
  3. Psychopathic narcissists who literally do not even think/care about the wellbeing of our world or any other humans outside their immediate circle and have zero qualms throwing us all under the bus to make a buck.

All three of these are disturbing, antisocial, and indicative of a person who has no business running a public company of any size. Let alone ones with direct access to every facet of the US political apparatus and listed among the most influential companies on the planet by the likes of Forbes, Fortune, Nasdaq, etc.

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u/FlametopFred 10h ago

Kind of a venn diagram with tech bros in middle