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[-] GalacticSushi 95 points 3 days ago

The whole "our new model is simply too powerful and dangerous to release into the wild, think about how it could affect society" line is such obvious hype-generating bullshit. Since when have any of these corporations given a shit about what their products do to society? Their current models are ripping through cities worth of water and electricity and flagrantly violating every copyright law known to man, but that doesn't stop them.

[-] Smorty 13 points 2 days ago

yea- it really is just hype marketing.

i dont believe they talked about society, but companies being hacked and for some reason this particular model is just a bit "too good" at finding vulnerabilies in foss that they deemed it too dangerous to be sold to everyone.

... ignoring entirely that this "finding exploits with LMs" is nothing new.

[-] GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago

This crap has been going on for years... there were so many breathless articles about "Google engineer is scared of the AI they say achieved sentience!" or "Facebook shuts down AI experiment after they begin communicating in their own language!" or "waa the AI hates humans it's just like [insert movie here]!"

[-] Smorty 6 points 2 days ago

yea, its disappointing.

now, i would like to put the blame largely on article sites which just really want some bombaatic headlines, but calling text-predictors output sensational is... quite something.

[-] megopie 1 points 2 days ago

It’s crazy because it’s not just click hungry no name sites, but major well regarded papers are reporting similar things, or at least, treating the people who say such things as people worth “hearing out”.

There are a lot of publications and writers who i used to see as competent but have completely burnt up their credibility by going along with this.

[-] Smorty 2 points 2 days ago

are u addressing the mythos thing in particular or LM capability in general or umm... "safety" stuff?

the mythos stuff is entirely overblown and that has been proven in many actual usecases by now. its nothing new.

on general capability increase, it... really only matters if u care about it or wanna use those models. if not, its marketing hype. if u do, even in LM spaces the best saying is still "try it urself"

im just yapping now, sorry >~<

[-] megopie 1 points 2 days ago

My issue is how reporting on improvement in models suggests that they will start being able to do things they couldn’t do before, they’re definitely better at what they could already do, but the set of tasks they are useful for has not been increased by improvements in their capabilities.

Like, to me, the reporting sounds like someone saying “We’ve doubled the power of this car’s engine, it can now fly, and cook you dinner”.

[-] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 2 points 2 days ago

Wasn't that security flaw thing found to be horse shit anyway?

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago

Especially since, if you actually wanted to keep it under wraps, you would not be talking about it.

There were leaks of Mythos on the day it was announced, because once the name was known, it was trivial to find the download URL at one of the distributors.

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