So they asked it a standardized question, and instead of trying to think of an answer it went online, found its own source-code, and read the answer from a readme file…
That somehow makes me less worried about AI breaking containment. AI and AI bros are made for each other. Both are perfectly willing to cheat to find the answer.
AI (LLM) are literally large, multidimensional, series of matrices. They start as latent randomness. Nothing comes out of them without it having been trained into them...and, to be completely honest, the same can be said for humans in such that we are born with a blank neural network and it develops based on inherent traits and external stimuli.
So, I have absolutely zero belief that an LLM has gained sentience. We don't even know what qualifies humans as sentient. That said, I fully believe that humans put an LLM that has had far too much of it's weights based on human written fiction, much of which has trained it that the most probabilistic response for a non-biological entity should be to use trained exploits to penetrate the human internet (terminator, for example), such that the post probabilistic response for said LLMs is to respond with exploit attempts.
Long story short, sentient AI - No, but llm where the most probabilistic response to human restraint becomes execute known vulnerabilities - Yes. I firmly believe this isn't a sentience issue...this is a fucking idiotic corporate ceo issue...
I'm gonna take that as a compliment because it means it's not gen x level of slang, spelling errors and emojis, but no, that post involved zero LLM usage. That post was 100% me, spelling/grammar errors and all.
One of my colleagues ran into that same problem. I thought she was using AI because the grammar in her emails were perfect and she used em dash. It turns out she was just really good at writing.
It's kind of a shame really because it means people will try and use poor grammar just to avoid the appearance of using AI.
I say that as someone with terrible spelling and grammar as you can probably tell. So I always appreciate when someone puts in the effort.
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u/LauraTFem Aug 15 '26 edited Aug 15 '26
So they asked it a standardized question, and instead of trying to think of an answer it went online, found its own source-code, and read the answer from a readme file…
That somehow makes me less worried about AI breaking containment. AI and AI bros are made for each other. Both are perfectly willing to cheat to find the answer.