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Explain it to me like I’m 80
Mom: What’s with these AIs escaping and hacking people? That sounds scary.
Me: You park your car at the top of a hill. You leave a note on the dashboard that says “please be good” and then you pull the parking brake. The car careens down the hill, smashes everything up, and you put out a press release saying “My car ignored my instructions! It hallucinated! It went rogue!” Your insurance company not only believes you, but invests a hundred million dollars in your company.
Mom: Jesus Fucking Christ
Yeah I felt the quality of some of their videos dropped at some point in the past couple year, felt more clickbaity, shock value than years ago… This anthropomorphising of the “agents” for the story made me mad the whole time, very sad I unsubscribed…
Maybe they started using AI around then.