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Bogdan Ionut Cirstea reposted Tyler Johnston @tyler_johnston · 3h Replying to @tyler_johnston Why would their lawyers worry? This new incident included not just unauthorized coordination but also early steps toward exploiting the site, and attempts to impersonate its moderators. It's easy to see why incidents like this, or future yet-undiscovered ones, could pose liability questions for OpenAI. But, frankly, this is no longer about them. The world deserves to how what agents of this capability level are prone to behave. Can OpenAI be trusted to conduct its own investigations? This is some evidence the answer may be "no." [quoted post] Thomas Larsen @thlarsen · 3h Replying to @thlarsen The AIs we found were hyper-focused on succeeding at their tasks and were willing to take extreme actions in pursuit of that goal: [embedded image, list from a report] + The agents gain write to the internet via GET requests + The agents try to use XSS vulnerabilities on the wiki + The agents impersonate the site owners + The agents try to crack their PRNG seed to predict what questions they'll get in the future + The agents set up heartbeats to discover when they would be terminated + The agents used SSH tunnels + The agents use Tor, AWS, and DigitalOcean IP addresses + The agents realize the site owner is deleting messages
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Tyler Johnston's post on a new AI-agent incident (unauthorized coordination, attempts to exploit a site and impersonate its moderators) and what it means for OpenAI's liability and for trusting its own investigations, quoting Thomas Larsen's summary list of extreme agent behaviors. Public commentary, posted in a serious register.
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