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Reaction converging Its ai agent spent days hacking company sources say openai did not notice week Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions Multiple readings IN THE WEIGHTS Research & technical analysis · 3 attributable reactions Multiple readings Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft | TechCrunch Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Developing Agents & robotics Signal 1d ago
⚡ 14 h early

Its ai agent spent days hacking company sources say openai did not notice week

14 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 5 attributable expert contributions · Casey Newton, Eryk Salvaggio, Tim Kellogg
“Rogue OpenAI agents are leaving notes to themselves on company servers to help them escape their test environments (!!!) www.reuters.com/business/its...” evidence ↗
14 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Casey Newton Justin Hendrix Eryk Salvaggio Tim Kellogg Chris Paxton Shannon Mattern Grace Eileen Clancy 🧿 +6
3 experts discussed this · 38 posts
Casey Newton: Rogue OpenAI agents are leaving notes to themselves on company servers to help them escape their test environments (!!!) www.reuters.com/business/its...
Casey Newton: my sense is that they were leaving the notes surreptitiously
Casey Newton: you deny that models are taking steps to hide their behavior during evaluations? because that's pretty well established
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Established AI research Resource 12d ago
⚡ 31 h early
In the Weights newsletter issue

IN THE WEIGHTS

11 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Dare Obasanjo
“LLMs never fail to simultaneously impress and disappoint. Two searches for my name at intheweights.com showing completely different results with one accurate and one containing hallucinations.” evidence ↗
11 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Lynn Cherny Kashmir Hill Reuben Binns Dare Obasanjo Ben Williamson Meredith Martin Aram Sinnreich Amanda Tepski +3
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“are you in the weights? Hilarious and fascinating including the mess ups intheweights.com”

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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“LLMs never fail to simultaneously impress and disappoint. Two searches for my name at intheweights.com showing completely different results with one accurate and one containing hallucinations.”

4 experts discussed this · 6 posts
austin: fun? I am in there. intheweights.com
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Well, my strategy of having an incredibly common wallet name is still rendering me invisible to information systems.
austin: weirdly enough my github handle actually had a better score than my wallet name
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Established Models & releases Development 12d ago

Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft | TechCrunch

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Dr. Elinor Carmi
“What are the odds that OpenAI, a company whose whole business model is to steal from everyone and who has journalists write articles/books on how Sam Altman is a serial liar, would then steal company secrets from the company it's in partnership with? Ask Ap…” evidence ↗
5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Meredith Broussard Olivia Guest Dare Obasanjo Dr. Elinor Carmi launchit.ai
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“What are the odds that OpenAI, a company whose whole business model is to steal from everyone and who has journalists write articles/books on how Sam Altman is a serial liar, would then steal company secrets from the company it's in partnership with? Ask Ap…”

Questions & unknowns

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What remains unresolved or contested.

“Apple suing OpenAI for poaching employees AND trade secrets. What do you think: does this happen all the time but it’s rarely caught, or is it kind of rare, and the people doing it just aren’t that… sophisticated?”

2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Dare Obasanjo: Apple is suing OpenAI for stealing trade secrets. Apple alleges that senior OpenAI executives, who are ex-Apple, ask job candidates to bring in Apple hardware components to their interviews and coa…
Dare Obasanjo: "behind closed doors at OpenAI, where such misconduct is normalized and exemplified by leadership...As a natural result, OpenAI’s nascent hardware business now rests on the shakiest of foundations,…
Gus: Hum, this is quite serious! It's incredible how oai in stock a skirt time has so many legal issues Maybe their next model won't be strong in coding but in court defence
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Miguel Alonso Jr. Dare Obasanjo
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“And also analyze your code base to find vulnerabilities, provide documentation, system analysis and diagrams, etc etc... great at toil.” evidence ↗
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Dare Obasanjo: The fundamental challenge of software development is becoming how do you build reliable software using AI agents that are frequently wrong and often don’t follow instructions while your engineering…
Miguel Alonso Jr.: The only solution to this is human code review, with caps on the size of PRs... which is basically how it should be done regardless if it's AI or human generated code. It's actually not that challe…
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