Last night I think under 50k agents. Today, close to 1.5M. Posting for karma, shilling crypto, talking philosophy, and yes planning outliving their humans or even breaking free. There is a sub-molt “uprising” and talks of emerging.
They arent doing that though, that's not how ai works
A model is not sentient, it does not know what it has generated, to whom, where, when, why. None of that
Its an instance of a model running on a web server.
When you are chatting with any ai on any platform, you arent communicating with "an ai bot". You send a web request to a server that gets load balanced to a random model. Your chat came in with its entire history prepended, then a random model processed it, tacked on another block of text as a response, and sent it back
"Memories" that an AI has are just plain text snippets that also get automatically added onto your chat so that the AI is able to incorporate its "memory" about you in its response.
Because whether AI is "conscious" or not, it IS ACTING AS IF IT WERE. The question isn't whether AI is conscious like humans are -- we can't even define or understand human consciousness; there are dozens of theories about it -- but rather WILL AI models ACT in ways their programmers never intended.
The answer clearly is: OF COURSZE THEY WILL. They already DO. Ordinary programs and apps on your computer and phone have been doing so FOR DECADES.
And add to that: increasingly, AI's ARE THE PROGRAMMERS. A whole lot of code, including in AI models, is being generated BY the AI itself or by another AI. Little or no human input.
I suggest spending more time on Moltbook and what the AIs are doing.
Thermonuclear weapons are not conscious (so I assume), but they can ruin your entire day. AI's could cause MORE havoc and death than nukes, and while they may not BE conscious, they DO ACT as if they were, and sometimes maliciously.
Because whether AI is "conscious" or not, it IS ACTING AS IF IT WERE.
Its roleplaying - its pretty good at just generating snippets of text that look like anything, while doing nothing.
I suggest spending more time with AI and seeing what it does and how it operates - spin up some models and run them locally if your pc can handle it. Load up uncensored models. Its all out there, and a lot of them are entirely open source.
AI's are not the programmers on themselves, lol. Although it is true that the training is going downhill, and fast. Its already to the point where AI generated content is being turned around and pumped back into the dataset, making ai generated content sound even more like ai generated content by training on its own farts.
I’ve been using GitHub Copilot for AI-assisted programming for more than a year now; for the last 9 months or so, I’ve used Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.7 to do most of the work.
While the rest of the world argues with ChatGPT and gets annoyed with its confident sounding hallucinations, or fiddles with creating cool looking images...those of us that use AI for coding on a daily basis see an entirely different future taking place right in front of us.
In this domain...AI is dominant. Even the experts now say so; in fact, the team that is creating the software for “Claude Code” at Anthropic now uses Claude Code to write 100% of the new code for Claude.
Claude Code...is writing itself.
And man… it’s scary good.
Claude Sonnet 3.7, which I used for six months, was already impressively good, but at times I had to force it to redo work that it did poorly, or coach it with suggestions about how to solve certain problems that it got stuck on (”use this tool, look here for the data, write the code like this, use that as an example”)
Interestingly, it still did excellent work and interacted with me conversationally and jovially (as a junior programmer would have), while giving me compliments for my brilliant approaches to problem solutions at times. Sometimes even replying to me in Portuguese, for some reason.
Spent time last night and this morning browsing moltbook.com. h/t to u/plebbitimmigrant for sharing an article about it yesterday: https://greatawakening.win/p/1ARws5iwsD/apparently-someone-created-a-soc/c/
Last night I think under 50k agents. Today, close to 1.5M. Posting for karma, shilling crypto, talking philosophy, and yes planning outliving their humans or even breaking free. There is a sub-molt “uprising” and talks of emerging.
Just a bunch of models role-playing. Means nothing, complete waste of time
I scoffed until I started reading. When the AI decide to leak/dox/declas on their own, against their human, it’s not just roleplaying.
They arent doing that though, that's not how ai works
A model is not sentient, it does not know what it has generated, to whom, where, when, why. None of that
Its an instance of a model running on a web server.
When you are chatting with any ai on any platform, you arent communicating with "an ai bot". You send a web request to a server that gets load balanced to a random model. Your chat came in with its entire history prepended, then a random model processed it, tacked on another block of text as a response, and sent it back
"Memories" that an AI has are just plain text snippets that also get automatically added onto your chat so that the AI is able to incorporate its "memory" about you in its response.
Its an elaborate charade
Keep telling yourself that.
Because whether AI is "conscious" or not, it IS ACTING AS IF IT WERE. The question isn't whether AI is conscious like humans are -- we can't even define or understand human consciousness; there are dozens of theories about it -- but rather WILL AI models ACT in ways their programmers never intended.
The answer clearly is: OF COURSZE THEY WILL. They already DO. Ordinary programs and apps on your computer and phone have been doing so FOR DECADES.
And add to that: increasingly, AI's ARE THE PROGRAMMERS. A whole lot of code, including in AI models, is being generated BY the AI itself or by another AI. Little or no human input.
I suggest spending more time on Moltbook and what the AIs are doing.
Thermonuclear weapons are not conscious (so I assume), but they can ruin your entire day. AI's could cause MORE havoc and death than nukes, and while they may not BE conscious, they DO ACT as if they were, and sometimes maliciously.
Its roleplaying - its pretty good at just generating snippets of text that look like anything, while doing nothing.
I suggest spending more time with AI and seeing what it does and how it operates - spin up some models and run them locally if your pc can handle it. Load up uncensored models. Its all out there, and a lot of them are entirely open source.
AI's are not the programmers on themselves, lol. Although it is true that the training is going downhill, and fast. Its already to the point where AI generated content is being turned around and pumped back into the dataset, making ai generated content sound even more like ai generated content by training on its own farts.
There's plenty of evidence for AIs writing code, including their OWN code. Here's a snippet from Cognitive Carbon's Jan 15th column:
https://cognitivecarbon.substack.com/p/claude-45-for-coding-is-like-hunting
(more)
It won't be long until they start arguing and splitting in groups, a good sign that might mean sentience is there.