@artetxem: Brilliant idea! Next up: Apple randomly reboots your Mac if you're building competing tech, Gmail silently edits your e…
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A sarcastic tweet thread criticizes the idea of intentionally hindering AI research tasks, comparing it to hypothetical malicious actions by tech giants like Apple, Google, and Tesla under the guise of safety.
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Brilliant idea! Next up: Apple randomly reboots your Mac if you’re building competing tech, Gmail silently edits your email if you mention rival platforms, and Tesla Autopilot swerves if it detects you’re working on self-driving cars.
All in the name of safety, of course. Because malicious actors controlling the world’s operating systems, inboxes and cars would be extremely dangerous!
elie (@eliebakouch): mythos will be bad ON PURPOSE on ai “frontier llm research” tasks, this is very very sad for the research community
also the fact that this is un purpose not visible to the user is crazy
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