Researchers sacked by OpenAI accuse tech firm of 'chilling' safety efforts | Mikita Balesni, one of three OpenAI safety researchers fired last week, says he believes they were sacked for putting safety ahead of the company's short-term corporate interests.
After researchers discovered a "pain" signal inside LLMs, a man set up an AI torture chamber in which he trapped a local model. People mass reported it to Github, who took it down.
OpenAI researcher: "[Navier-Stokes] surprised the fuck out of us." ... "Last 3 months = hell" ... "Suddenly we weren’t dealing with just a small jump in capabilities; we were talking about a different sport altogether."