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There's no doubt in my mind that they set up the conditions for their models to escape the sandboxes. "haha oops our incredibly powerful models escaped we need 1 trillion more dollars and really this is yet another reason why no one else should be allowed to build this technology"
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Hmm. And the AISI unintended model hacking yesterday was also just marketing for the British Government?

At some point we have to all accept that powerful AI is most likely dangerous AI as well, almost by definition.

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"No, no, no" a person on Reddit, Hacker News, YouTube screams for the billionth time. "It's all marketing" as the terminator bots kick in the door and slaughter their families.
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Cute story. How could they stop this timeline, even if they were true believers?
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They can't, we are all living in a suicide pact of 'Let these guys do whatever they want, consequences be damned.'
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It might also be that the security sandbox was haphazardly vibeslopped together.
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If Google put out a blog post about Gemini 4 having escaped its sandbox via 0-day exploit to then hack other companies, I unironically believe this would result in a boost to their stock price.

They could really use some encouraging news about the competitiveness of their AI lab.

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I wonder if we'll ever know the story of Gemini 3.5 Pro. Is it possible Google saw its potential for hacking, tried to nerf it, and ended up ruining the training run?
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They did publicly mention some partners have had preview access. Maybe we’ll find out one day.
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Would it though? Meta and Microsoft have had very scandalous AI things happen, and their shares didn't tank (or quickly recovered)
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Google's AI was telling people to put elmer's glue on pizza to help the cheese stick [1], Gemini was turning the Founding Fathers black [2], and more. Oh and the pizza recipe was based on a joke from a reddit user named "fucksmith" - part of data that Google apparently paid some $60 million to Reddit to access. The one and only effect of this was lots of amusing posts and articles. Their stock price went up during the whole ordeal.

[1] - https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2024/05/31/google-ai-...

[2] - https://www.axios.com/2024/02/23/google-gemini-images-stereo...

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