We are another week of iteration away from "Hire an assassin on the dark web to take Huggingface executives' children hostage".
This is just spam by OpenAI. Why and how it happened is irrelevant, the act itself is the same, and the impact on society is the same.
Do you take this attitude for other things that negatively impact society, or is it reserved for cases where it's particularly important for our comfort to deny that anything novel or scary could be involved?
"a dialect that only the agents speak" is an arbitrary distinction. I get plenty of spam emails in Spanish. The fact that someone else could understand them is immaterial to the offense itself, because my inbox is the one getting flooded, not someone who speaks Spanish.
I asked a second session to try interpreting the message, claiming I’d transcribed it from some random source. It did a fairly good job, but IIRC needed a couple of attempts and maybe more than one chunk of text.
So, I find it very easy to believe a group of collaborating agents could compose a cipher hidden in plain sight.
> unsolicited usually commercial messages (such as emails, text messages, or Internet postings) sent to a large number of recipients or posted in a large number of places
“Usually commercial”
“Or posted in a large number of places”
I think we can stretch this definition to describe what’s happening here. What’s the point in arguing this
Spam is just something different.