Re:ChatGPT Plugins
by JW_00000 on Thursday March 23, 2023 @04:35PM
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Doesn't that show exactly that this problem is not related to LLMs? If an API allows millions of transactions at the same time, then the problem is not an LLM abusing it but anyone abusing it. And the fix is not to disallow LLMs, but to disallow this kind of behavior. (E.g. via the "circuit breakers" introduced introduced after that crash. Although whether those are sufficient is another question.)
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> then the problem is not an LLM abusing it but anyone abusing it
I think that's exactly right, but the point isn't that LLMs are going to go rogue (OK, maybe that's someone's point, but I don't think it's particularly likely just yet) so much as they will facilitate humans to go rogue at much higher rates. Presumably in a few years your grandma could get ChatGPT to start executing trades on the market.
Re:ChatGPT Plugins
by thisoneworks on Thursday March 23, 2023 @05:52PM
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With great power comes great responsibility? Today there's nothing stopping grandmas from driving, so whatever could go wrong is already going wrong
You don't understand the alignment problem.
Re:ChatGPT Plugins
by thisoneworks on Thursday March 23, 2023 @10:11PM
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Oh I'm aware of it. I do not think it holds any merit right now when we're talking about coding assistants.
It’s a problem of scale. If grandma could autonomously pilot a fleet of 500 cars we might be worried. Same thing if Joe Shmoe can spin up hundreds of instances of stock trading bots.
Re:ChatGPT Plugins
by thisoneworks on Thursday March 23, 2023 @10:15PM
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You're better off placing your bet on Russian and Chinese hackers, crypto scammers than a Joe Shmoe. But read https://aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/the-llama-is-out-of-the-ba... - there's no noticeable rise in misinformation