Lack of trust in AI systems due to perceived risks and transparency issues

Signals over time

3 observed signals across 1 sources, tracked for 1 days. Confidence: low.

What people are saying Observed

• “>and, most significantly, there has been a wave of AI-produced solutions provided with no explanation. Counter productive and dumb, although not dumb from the viewpoint of an AI company trying to win hearts and minds hoping that translates into revenue. Lots of mathematical problems require WORK, and now we have a homunculus to do the work. Indeed most AI companies are oriented toward brute forcing every way forward in order to claim the prize of being profitable. This could genuinely serve the purpose of mathematical understanding for humanity, but in the short run it is a series of stunts. In the long run I am optimistic that we will benefit.”

  Hacker News · frustration

• “AI hater here: I have a hard time taking statements from OpenAI about their own product, that they are trying to sell to people and make money, seriously. I take these statements as they are greatly exaggerated or even straight up lies and propaganda. That said, I think results like these are mostly annoying more then anything. They spent a lot of money, used up gigartiuan amount of compute, to ruin a puzzle that mathematicians were tackling. I am mostly unsurprised that if you spend a trillion times the energy that a team of mathematicians would, that you get maybe 1.5 times the results. I see a future where that 1.5 times the results may go to 3x but not much more. And that, then I will be more annoyed.”

  Hacker News · frustration

• “Yes, it is clearly designed to give you access to all of this intentionally. Its system prompt (which you can just read in the interface without asking) explicitly instructs it to act on behalf of the user, not meta. All of its memory files, skills, db schema, memory integration system etc are likewise visible because they went out of their way to add an interface for viewing them! I don't like or trust meta any more than I always did but I don't see how they could have done a "better" job with this. These kinds of agents are inherently pretty risky IMO but I don't see how this one is particularly more than any others. Playing around with it I really don't get the sense there's any hidden prompt contradicting what's visible. It's nearly gleeful at using the VM in ways that were not intended and likely against meta's interests. I feel like someone must have won a really interesting internal power struggle to get this thing out in this form.”

  Hacker News · frustration