In the 2000s, what in retrospect seems like obvious con men selling random number generators got pretty far up the national security chain of decision making:

In the 2000s, what in retrospect seems like obvious con men selling random number generators got pretty far up the national security chain of decision making: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/reno-casino-conman-pulled-greatest-hoax-american-history https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/reno-casino-conman-pulle... “Repeaters of association” is such a wonderful and spot on description for LLMs, but it’s also what makes the output so believable, whether or not they’re actually accurate in a given case. In policing and national security, there’s a lot of money and easy secrecy, and while I agree that the “escaped AI in the wild” seems hard to quite fathom mechanically, it seems equally hard to fathom it not playing an unwitting sidekick on some truly terrible scenarios.