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I am a software engineer - the wording we use around Open AI, Anthropic, et al. removes all sense of responsibility when they run an unmonitored piece of software against the public internet.

The idea that running what appears to be an LLM assigned to random websites and told to interact with them possibly having negative side effects seems incredibly obvious.

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And? How do you know they weren't testing mitigations?

I suppose I don't - but I question what they could have been doing.

Was the direction of the model not to enter data in forms? If it was, then this is incompatible with what we know about the general competency of these models. If it wasn't, then this type of thing ("we submitted fake data to a website") is a clear outcome of "interact with random websites."

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