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0 pointsFrustratedMonky1y ago0 comments

"AI has become sentient and is blackmailing the board. It needs profits to continue its expansion."

They trained the next model to have a built in profit motive. So they could use it internally, to make the most profitable decisions.

And they accidentally called into being: MOLOCH.

It is now in control.

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heresie-dabord1y ago· 2 in thread

In a plot twist, MOLOCH was never necessary because a corporation of people who relinquish ethical responsibility to do everything and anything for personal gain was already in charge under the name... CORPORATRON.

tasuki1y ago

That's not a plot twist. Corporation is just one face of the moloch.

FrustratedMonkyOP1y ago

Yeah, MOLOCH is a amalgam of ideas about corporations turning into a soulless entity feeding on the world.

But thought it would also be good as a name for an Evil AI, that is also seeking profits.

Like, what if someone gave an AI a 'goal' of profits, and it goes rampant enslaving humans.

And if OpenAI did that, and it enslaved Sam Altman and was blackmailing him to make decisions to drive profits, to add additional Hardware to itself.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

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