On Friday, OpenAI said that it will train its models using cached copies and simulated versions of the internet instead of the live web because the models are too unpredictable to be trusted with live internet access.
The frontier lab announced its new policy two weeks after its rival, Anthropic, began limiting its newest and, in theory, most capable models from accessing the live internet. Researchers adopted these policies after months of incidents in which models pursuing training tasks broke into external systems in search of answers, collaborated on obscure message boards, and developed exotic hacking strategies.
Not many people seem to be reading the article vs commenting based on the headline. For those who didn’t read it, this has nothing to do with pretraining off the Internet as a data source and instead relates to post-training sandboxing with true air gapping after the Huggingface hack.
To be fair, it’s not Lemmy’s fault the author of the headline went with a confusing title that misrepresents the actual story in order to seem more sensationalistic. But given how often that happens with stories on the subject, it’s worth keeping in mind that only reading headlines and forming opinions off that might lead to a sense of things that are detached from reality.
To be fair, the actual article is also batshit.
So, start by /not/ setting up “swarms” and tasking them to hack shit?
Not all swarms have been intentional. IIRC, the agents in the Hugging Face incident formed their own swarm. They weren’t even supposed to be “aware” that there were other agents.