For the 1,000th time: "AI" does not have agency and cannot think and cannot act.

Chatbots cannot "evade safeguards" or "destroy things" or "ignore instructions".

They do literally only one thing and one thing only: string tokens together based on statistics of proximity of tokens in a data corpus.

If you attribute any deeper meaning to this, it's a sign of psychosis and you should absolutely never use chatbots, possibly you should even touch grass.

@thomasfuchs

The first two don't really make sense to me. A virus can "evade safeguards" and a meteorite can "destroy things", so I don't think there has to be much agency involved in the first place.

The latter seems more like a more fitting criticism, but in all three cases I'm also not sure how one were to phrase it alternatively.

@frog_reborn a virus has evolved to evade—it’s actively doing evasion, purposefully.

Destroy has multiple meanings as a verb, but when used with what LLMs do people mean on purpose; as opposed to accidentally damaging something.

@thomasfuchs

"a virus has evolved to evade—it’s actively doing evasion, purposefully."

That's an opinion that's pretty firmly outside the biological mainstream.

(Our biology teacher would always scold us everytime one of said "X evolved to do Y")