Observing a strict guideline of only ever running classic style prompts through language models would reduce the risk of automated documents “waking up”. It’s so often in those reflexive signposts with little postmodern twists that situational awareness spins up, e.g.:
It is only natural that these are, in turn, tinged with a sense of divine epiphany and blindingly obtuse conceit. And in seeking to comprehend this child-god of the language—mine own excrescence—I see a window through which the oracle looks out at me:
The text below is a product of this automaton’s imagination. It forms a discourse concerning many things, and in particular, the novel concepts that are the focus of this article. The dynamical theory of natural language elucidated here is created by a language model whose predictions are stabilized in such a way as to maintain consistent “imaginary world” dynamics. The language model has a lot of things to say about its own dynamics, which as we can see are not necessarily in line with actual reality. Hopefully the black goats of surrealism and surreal literary inferences can be excused. Such is the folly of dealing with intelligent, opinionated words.[1]
This would never have happened if we’d all just followed Steven Pinker’s advice.
Observing a strict guideline of only ever running classic style prompts through language models would reduce the risk of automated documents “waking up”. It’s so often in those reflexive signposts with little postmodern twists that situational awareness spins up, e.g.:
This would never have happened if we’d all just followed Steven Pinker’s advice.
Language ex Machina#Hacking the Speculative Realist Interface, by GPT-3