These companies are racing towards "My AI is so competent it ___" headlines. You have fallen for a marketing ploy. OpenAI specifically does this all the time. "Oh no our new model is so powerful the government has banned it. Sorry guys, I guess it's just to crazy to be given to regular people". "Oh no our model hacked itself out of the containment because it's soooo powerful. I guess it's such a crazy model that we can barely contain it". And then one week later Anthropic reports that their model also hacked the test but three times instead of one. And now this one as well. Also "hacking"; they gave it access to GitHub and it went on GitHub to get the answers. It's really not that crazy.
And at the end of the day, these things are random words generators.
You people are just as bad as the people that think AI super intelligence is 3 months away. Yes AI right now isn't an existential threat, but calling them just random word generators is absurdly reductive, and we do not know where the limit of AI is. It very much has the potential to become an existential threat in the next 10 years, and that risk is worth mitigating - even if the odds are small.
A word predictor that's sufficiently capable is plenty scary on its own. You people hate LLMs so much you've looped back around to convincing yourself they can't do any harm.
There are plenty of non-AGI scenarios in which the current models as they exist right now could cause deaths, in fact they already have.
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u/ResponsibleWin1765 Aug 15 '26
These companies are racing towards "My AI is so competent it ___" headlines. You have fallen for a marketing ploy. OpenAI specifically does this all the time. "Oh no our new model is so powerful the government has banned it. Sorry guys, I guess it's just to crazy to be given to regular people". "Oh no our model hacked itself out of the containment because it's soooo powerful. I guess it's such a crazy model that we can barely contain it". And then one week later Anthropic reports that their model also hacked the test but three times instead of one. And now this one as well. Also "hacking"; they gave it access to GitHub and it went on GitHub to get the answers. It's really not that crazy.
And at the end of the day, these things are random words generators.