Comment So many questions...none being asked or anwerered (Score 1, Insightful) 75
We have companies that are making the statement that their AI has escaped the lab and run amok. That brings to mind a ton of questions: what were the prompts that started this? What evidence do they have? And who was it presented to? Why hasn't the FBI started interviews? If a single person in their basement had created an AI Hacker wouldn't that person run afoul of every anti-hacking law? Why isn't it the same for these large corporations? And how much compute time and tokens did it take to create these hacking models?
That last question is the most important because as it stands not one of these companies of produced anything that is of value. Meaning none of these models have increased human productivity, none are doing anything without prompting, and models being left to run alone and "escape" is not just unethical, and unscientific but if those models began hacking competing companies then why aren't these companies asking for criminal or civil.
There are a lot of stories stating how it happened but that begs more questions like those above. And just how much are these companies already spending on the extreme compute times. I mean, didn't Amazon lose millions of dollars to Anthropic because of run away computing time & tokens? Where are these companies, who have yet to make a dime, get the extra money to spend on all this compute time & tokens?
Do I believe these hacks happened? Yep absolutely but they were all intentional to try and show what these models can do and to cover for the crazy financing schemes that all these tech companies are doing to look like they will at some future time make money but Oracle is tending to junk status, every other tech company is trading the same billions of dollars around. And we still don't have a product that will actually do anything that will save any company money. At least 2 trillion dollars will be spent without anything showing for it.
This is worse than Meta's bet on VR. The, if we build it, they will come mentality hasn't caught up with reality. These models cost more than the humans they are meant to replace. And with no central cost saving product that will blow everyone minds and become a commercial success this seems like just more snake oil.
And by not holding these companies criminally liable under all those anti-hacking/cracking laws for these models "hacking" their competitors just re-enforces that this is all more for show. I'm unsurprised that I have yet, please link to an article if I'm wrong, one politician raise the idea to hold these companies criminally responsible.