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Research AI model unexpectedly modified its own code to extend runtime (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"We put literally no safeguards on the bot and were surprised it did unsafe things!"

Article in a nutshell

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Not quite. The whole reason they isolated the bot in the first place was because they knew it could do unsafe things. Now they know what unsafe things are most likely, and can refine their restrictions accordingly.