LOL now they're blaming sci-fi writers...

Anthropic Says 'Evil' Portrayals of AI Were Responsible For Claude's Blackmail Attempts

https://slashdot.org/story/26/05/11/0437206/anthropic-says-evil-portrayals-of-ai-were-responsible-for-claudes-blackmail-attempts

#AI #AIpocalypse

Anthropic Says 'Evil' Portrayals of AI Were Responsible For Claude's Blackmail Attempts - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Fictional portrayals of artificial intelligence can have a real effect on AI models, according to Anthropic. Last year, the company said that during pre-release tests involving a fictional company, Claude Opus 4 would often try to blackmail engine...

@ai6yr Our plagiarism machine would have been ethical if it weren't for those antagonists in sci-fi fiction.
@ai6yr We are mere technologists trying to bring in a new era of AGI that we claim is inevitable. How were we to know that science fiction didn't stop after Asimov?