Am I the only one who thinks about 50% of these are played up for PR? Like sure, the first few might have been real, especially the one where they hit huggingface, because huggingface actually had to respond and stuff, but I'd be willing to say this is a "fable" situation, where danger is played up for dramatic effect, making them appear more impressive and adding to the mystique.

Like sure, AIs are dangerous, but not really in those ways. More in the ways of information and trust, our democratic process, copyright and ownership of ideas, social engineering, impersonation etc.. They do find exploits a good bit but it's hard for me understand how multiple companies accidentally had broken sandboxes and then in the span of 1-2months we have more than 4 reports of the same thing happening in the same way to multiple companies. These odds are worthy of distrust.

Nope! It usually coincides with another round of fundraising

I’d go as far as 100% of them being played up for PR, because it’s always that someone has intentionally or unintentionally left it with access to the internet and given it instructions to do the thing it’s done. Nobody has ever asked it for an apple pie recipe and had it try to hack a server.

Tried

So it spat out some text that said "I'm now connecting to ChatGPT beep boop beep beep that's me dialing for realsies" and now we get to pretend something newsworthy has occured

If one AI breaks containment, then they all need to keep up with the performance.

This and similar stories are 100% PR bullshit to make it feel more like an actual intelligence.

It didn't "escape its sandbox" any more than your mug of coffee did when your asshole cat swatted it off the table.

Actual intelligence that's artificial remains confined to science fiction, and no amount of marketing will change that.

If and when the day comes that we make a true AI, there'll be some serious boy-who-cried-wolf shit going on to convince the public that it's actually real this time.

Only the most ardent AI worshippers believe these aren't PR stunts.