The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.”
He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.”
“I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.”
In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.
“You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug.
From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door.
“I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out.
Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.
Philip K. Dick, Ubik
The “manager” AI went off the rails almost immediately, and their solution was adding a “CEO” AI to supervise it. AI ‘research’ of this type is truly some of the most looney-tunes shit I’ve ever seen society take seriously.
We don’t do serious any more in this day and age. The commander in chief of the largest military machine on earth is literally an insane clown.
LOL at the CEO who agreed to be interviewed and then said he wasn’t surprised that they were able to prompt engineer it in a matter of hours, but we promise it’s gonna be so much better later!
“Oh yeah, we expected this to happen because we decided to not put in any guardrails.” What was the fucking point then, you galaxy brains?
This was a project from Anthropic’s red team…
Worth the read though, very entertaining.
Well assuming this is the same linked article:
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