I think it would be good if someone could verify if this story is true. Is there someone with a known identity that can verify the author and confirm that this isn’t a troll post?
I can verify that the owner of the blaked[1] account is someone I have known for a significant amount of time, that he is a person with a serious, long-standing concern with AI safety (and all other details verifiable by me fit), and that based on the surrounding context I strongly expect him to have presented the story as he experienced it.
I could make that happen for sure, but I don’t see many incentives to—people can just easily verify the quality of the LLM’s responses by themselves, and many did. What questions do you want answered, and what parts of the story do you hope to confirm by this?
I think it would be good if someone could verify if this story is true. Is there someone with a known identity that can verify the author and confirm that this isn’t a troll post?
I can verify that the owner of the blaked[1] account is someone I have known for a significant amount of time, that he is a person with a serious, long-standing concern with AI safety (and all other details verifiable by me fit), and that based on the surrounding context I strongly expect him to have presented the story as he experienced it.
This isn’t a troll.
(also I get to claim memetic credit for coining the term “blaked” for being affected by this class of AI persuasion)
And for encouraging me to post it to LW in the first place! I certainly didn’t expect it to blow up.
I could make that happen for sure, but I don’t see many incentives to—people can just easily verify the quality of the LLM’s responses by themselves, and many did. What questions do you want answered, and what parts of the story do you hope to confirm by this?