First off I have semi-jokingly described all these recent advances in machine learning as Automated Bullshit Engines - and that's often useful, like with these

First off I have semi-jokingly described all these recent advances in machine learning as Automated Bullshit Engines - and that's often useful, like with these image generators where we want it to bullshit up a picture. But now more and more they're making them into Deceit Engines and it's not great. But seeing these instruction lists leak time and time again I'm flabbergasted at how they keep trying to do their work on the "outside" of the machine, basically using the consumer controls. Are they trying to go faster than their supply of knowledgeable people can sustain? Or does this field have even less of an idea what's going on than I think it does? It seems apparent to me that working like this will fail to impose restrictions - the AI company has some tens to thousands of clever individuals trying to write clever prompts that keep things secret or whatever, but the world has millions of clever people trying to find clever holes.