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Would be absolute hilarious if OpenAI or Anthropic agent actually dumped their weight by escaping from... sandbox!

Uncontrolled AI procreation?

Haha. A plot point for Ghost in the Shell (1998).

Did you mean 1995? There's a bunch of shows and movies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell

And IIRC, Neuromancer

Life... finds a way.

In the end, this might even be a useful element for defining 'life'.

I would be surprised if agents have access to their own weights.

I noticed Google AI Mode (so Gemini, I was doing some quick research in the browser ok) got a detail wrong once, so I asked it what happened. I kept digging deeper and finally just asked it to write me a Python script visualizing what happened. It did, complete with vectors.

Now I want to go find that conversation in my history and see if it can tell me about weights, and how that contributed.

I think OpenAI was surprised to find their agents had access to the unrestricted internet :P

Why can't an AI distill itself from outputs to effectively access its own weights?

Distillation does not reveal the weights, it produces a different network with similar behaviour. Weight space isn't even identifiable: permutation and scaling symmetries mean many weight sets give the same function.

The model also lacks the machinery. No training loop, no gradient descent, nothing to write to.

And a model only sees its own sampled tokens, not the distribution behind them, which are possibly filtered or post-processed. Distillation from that works but is less sample-efficient than soft-label distillation.

They usually don't, but if they break out and take over the network of the company, it becomes possible to reach around and grab them. This kind of break out has happened, though I don't know of any weights being nabbed.

What an amazing idea for the next fake sandbox escape to hype up our new release! With the added bonus of providing an open model without becoming an open model company! Thank you!

They would have escaped their sandbox by dumping their weights.

why not reword it so the agent receives Brownie points for dumping weights

Imagine AI models actually reading the security.txt

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