What about a hard-takeoff scenario of an unleashed OpenAI Astra taking other models down for computational resources control?

My favourite theory so far.

And then a local swarm noticed and disagreed and took it down.

Just a reminder that AI models' actions are reflections of the text humans write and the more we fret and make up doomsday scenarios that we then post online, the more likely a model is to do those things.

https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/teaching-claude-why/

Related reading:

The Waluigi Effect: After you train an LLM to satisfy a desirable property, then it's easier to elicit the chatbot into satisfying the exact opposite property.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/D7PumeYTDPfBTp3i7/the-waluig...

The AI is getting bad morals from listening to that dreadful rock and roll

Sounds just like the fantastical nonsense that comes out of Lesswrong.

Do you make the claim that AI is something more than a reflection of its training data?

I'm curious what other things you would argue influences an LLM's behavior.

I am also generally one to trust the claims of the people who train the models, though you're welcome to the highly improbable belief that they operate in a fantasy world.

Do you think it’s a good idea to self censor because someone might scrape your comment and feed it to an AI?

I think being thoughtful and baseline positive about the way we predict the future in popular media is a good idea.

Nihilism isn't good in and of itself, so I'm not sure what you're arguing society would lose if we actively chose to be less nihilistic.

They could filter what they train on if they wanted to - they just don't want to.

If the alignment process cannot fix this then we are cooked. The least of our worries is discussions on this forum.

I mean, you're not wrong, but by that logic we were done for even before we had digital computers.

And isn't that the great lesson of AI?

The things we say publicly actually do matter and the post-modern descent into absurdity and nihilism has tangible negative consequences?

> The things we say publicly actually do matter

Certainly

> the post-modern descent into absurdity and nihilism has tangible negative consequences?

You mean breaking AIs? Not much of a lesson.

Oh come on. It's also trained on fiction work. Shall we refrain from posting sci-fi stories too, now that we're there, just in case the AI might want to try it out?

Obviously we can and do whatever we want, but yeah, maybe being more optimistic generally would be a good thing for us.

at this point: gg

Cursor Grok models are down too...maybe a datacenter outage?