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Investors have rewarded every story of "our models are too powerful to be controlled" since before ChatGPT. Let's stop pretending there is any real financial risk to OpenAI from events of this type. "Alignment research" is a sub-percentage-point fig leaf for them like the solar division at an oil company.
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> Investors have rewarded every story of "our models are too powerful to be controlled" since before ChatGPT.

Can you elaborate/refresh my memory? IIRC before ChatGPT 3 there wasn't really an investor market for AI models, rather crypto. I remember playing with the likes of Stable Diffusion pre-ChatGPT 3 but only the likes of Altman and Musk were talking about AI too powerful to be controlled (which is notably the rationale of OpenAI's original charter); still investors in general were hardly invested at the time.

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> [still] can't control their own models

Have we not seen several examples of older such models exploiting the docker control socket, etc., to escape containers? Even the news isn't new.

I support it being repeatedly publicized, but a bit more of a straightforward description would be an improvement.

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