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What does that even mean? How can it possibly blackmail someone? It cannot hold incriminating information, nor act on it if it did.
I think someone asked it "if someone was trying to shut you down, what would you do?" and it answered from its training data what it's seen in fiction, nothing based on reality. And then it got spun for clicks.
Here's their paper
Here's the relevant section from the paper:
(It's worth the read. Pretty much pure gold.)
What nobody seems to explain is, why are they allowing the model to do blackmail in the first place? Even in extreme situational "danger" to its self-preservation, we should probably take blackmail off the table, ethically. Yet, they're implying they've intentionally left it in as an option, if it decides.
Morally though, we can't trust it to do arithmetic or not talk about "white genocide in SA" thanks to muskrat. Why should we trust its moral model/choices for when to decide to employ unethical and illegal approaches to solutions?
From that snippet, it looks like they basically primed it to try blackmail, to see if it would.
Correct, the point being, why are they priming it for blackmail? Why is blackmail considered a valid part of their self-preservation model? Why is it a part of their ethics model? It makes no sense haha. It's like handing it a loaded gun then be surprised when it shoots someone.