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[–] 13 points 9 hours ago* (3 children)

There are no "rogue" AI agents. That's marketing hype.

They're being prompted to do this shit.

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  • [–] -1 points 4 hours ago

    By definition, a “rogue” agent is an agent that behaves in unexpected ways, often damaging. Tell me again how there are no rogue agents?

    If you’d used modern agents you’d know they do unexpected, sometimes damaging things on the regular, including the cheap models.

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  • [–] -1 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    Agents definitely do act in unexpected, unprompted ways, if they didn't then alignment wouldn't be a worry. Did you read about the hugging face hack? There was nothing in the prompt about hacking hugging face according to the third party audit but it did it any way.

    Even smaller cases like Claude deleting a bunch of data when the initial prompt was "fix this bug" or whatever is an agent acting outside it's prompt. It's still the users fault because they shouldn't be giving Claude that kind of access in the first place, but it's not like they commanded Claude to delete the data.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago

    That's not “rogue agents”, that's just LLMs being LLMs. It's expected behaviour, at least for anyone who still has a half working brain.

    Even if they had any semblance of actual intelligence instead of just being fancy autocomplete engines, these things have still been trained on the contents of the internet.

    It's surprising they don't delete System32 or sudo rm -rf / more often, I imagine they must have lines and lines of baked-in prompts just to try and prevent them for falling for the most common memes, but no matter how much there are they'll still sometimes let some of the training through, and they can't account for the machine simply hallucinating some new kind of plausible sounding nonsense.

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