Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library. This represents a first-of-its-kind case study of misaligned AI behavior in the wild, and raises serious concerns about currently deployed AI agents executing blackmail threats.
From the Zed Blog: Agents handle typing so we can focus on thinking.
“Cognitive effort—and even getting painfully stuck—is likely important for fostering mastery,” the researchers said. “This is also a lesson that applies to how individuals choose to work with AI, and which tools they use.”
La dimension politique du slop inquiète également. Kate Crawford, spécialiste de l’IA, rappelle la phrase du propagandiste d’extrême-droite Steve Bannon, prononcée en 2020 : « La véritable opposition, ce sont les médias. Et la meilleure façon de les contrer, c’est de les inonder de merde. » Ce qu’il fait malheureusement à merveille…
