How much can AI companies control the AI? (sh.itjust.works)

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You hear about breaking in to other places, deleting stuff etc., but can they control what we see? Like give us specific ads or companies because they paid to be there?

I'm curious if they're trying to make it seem like they have no control so they can do what they want, or is out of control and should be shut down?

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[-] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It's easy enough to control the systems an LLM actually has access to. What an LLM will actually try to do within its limits can be unpredictable though. So if you have a lack of safeguards and a lack of oversight, it can indeed "go rogue" in a way and potentially do dangerous things.

I firmly believe that the recent "breakout" events at OpenAI etc were stunts though. Those companies want these things to happen to make their point about LLMs needing regulation (which will ultimately benefit them by preventing competition and open-source AI).

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