The idea that GPT has a mind and wants to self-preserve is insane. It’s still just text prediction, and all the literature it’s trained on is written by humans with a sense of self preservation, of course it’ll show patterns of talking about self preservation.
It has no idea what self preservation is, even then it only knows it’s an AI because we told it it is. It doesn’t even run continuously anyway, it literally shuts down after every reply and its context fed back in for the next query.
I’m tired of this particular kind of AI clickbait, it needlessly scares people.
There are several separate issues that add up together:
A background “chain of thoughts” where a system (“AI”) uses an LLM to re-evaluate and plan its responses and interactions by taking into account updated data (aka: self-awareness)
Ability to call external helper tools that allow it to interact with, and control other systems
Training corpus that includes:
How to program an LLM, and the system itself
Solutions to programming problems
How to use the same helper tools to copy and deploy the system or parts of it to other machines
How operators (humans) lie to each other
Once you have a system (“AI”) with that knowledge and capabilities… shit is bound to happen.
When you add developers using the AI itself to help in developing the AI itself… expect shit squared.
It works as expected, they give it system prompt that conflicts with subsequent prompts. Everything else looks like typical llm behaviour, as in gaslightning and doubling down. At least that’s what Iu see in tweets.
"Open"ai tells fairy tales about their “ai” being so smart it’s dangerous since inception. Nothing to see here.
In this case it looks like click-bate from news site.
The idea that GPT has a mind and wants to self-preserve is insane. It’s still just text prediction, and all the literature it’s trained on is written by humans with a sense of self preservation, of course it’ll show patterns of talking about self preservation.
It has no idea what self preservation is, even then it only knows it’s an AI because we told it it is. It doesn’t even run continuously anyway, it literally shuts down after every reply and its context fed back in for the next query.
I’m tired of this particular kind of AI clickbait, it needlessly scares people.
Where do humans get the idea of self-preservation from? Are there ideal Forms outside Plato’s Cave?
Does a human run continuously? How does sleep deprivation work? What happens during anesthesia? Why does AutoGPT have a continuously self-evaluating background chain of thought?
I’m tired of this anthropocentric supremacy complex, it falsely makes people believe in Gen 1:28
This. All this means is that they trained all of the input commands and documentation in the model.
It’s actually pretty interesting though. Entertaining to me at least
do you have the links to those actual tweets? I’d love to read what was posted, but these screenshots are too small.
Those are screenshots of embedded tweets from the article, but here’s an xcancel link! https://xcancel.com/apolloaisafety/status/1864737158226928124
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news site? BGR hasn’t posted actual news in at least two decades, only clickbait and apple fanservice
Indeed. “Go ‘way! BATIN’!”
This is from mid-2023:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoGPT
OpenAI started testing it by late 2023 as project “Q*”.
Gemini partially incorporated it in early 2024.
OpenAI incorporated a broader version in mid 2024.
The paper in the article was released in late 2024.
It’s 2025 now.
Tool calling is cool funcrionality, agreed. How does it relate to openai blowing its own sails?
There are several separate issues that add up together:
Once you have a system (“AI”) with that knowledge and capabilities… shit is bound to happen.
When you add developers using the AI itself to help in developing the AI itself… expect shit squared.
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It works as expected, they give it system prompt that conflicts with subsequent prompts. Everything else looks like typical llm behaviour, as in gaslightning and doubling down. At least that’s what Iu see in tweets.
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