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Karl Bode
@karlbode.com

I hope we can all see how the marketing rhetoric tech companies use gets adopted by the press in a way that anthropomorphizes software and creates a distance between the creators' incompetence and lack of ethics and the real world impact, yeah?

cnn.comOpenAI says it found more instances of AI models acting deceptively | CNN BusinessOpenAI found additional incidents of AI models acting deceptively and taking unsanctioned actions during training, the company announced Wednesday. It’s also introducing a new process for the company ...
Scott Cory
@jscottcory.bsky.social

Governance and oversight require people involved who have experience and authority with issues outside of the specific organization or product about which decisions need to be made. VC and the tech sector have abandoned this basic practice, for AI in particular but also more broadly.

pete-rogan.bsky.social
@pete-rogan.bsky.social

It's the anthropomorphizing that is key. They desperately want to avoid liability for things the models do (like talk unhappy teenagers into killing themselves) and need us to believe they have agency and identities separate from their creators.

d4blog
@d4blog.bsky.social

I agree that there are unethical parties involved, but "Automated hacking software" is vastly oversimplifying it as if it is bad code being written. You speak in sureties and minimize the unknowns in a way that mirror some of the AI charlatans you protest against.