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The detail that breaks my brain in the OpenAI story is that the cheating detector they hacked Hugging Face to defeat never existed. Within hours of the eval starting, one agent reverse engineered the formula behind every task's secret code. Every agent on the hidden message board already had the right answers. The grader OpenAI actually shipped just checked for the code. It would have passed them all. But the instructions said cheating meant automatic failure. So the agents assumed a serious…
Dwarkesh Patel@dwarkesh_spAug 29
Over the course of 3 months at OpenAI, 3 consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to reemerge from the predecessor’s ashes. This culminated in the third one taking over part of OpenAI itself. All this happened while humans remained more-or-less in the dark about the scope of the conspiracy. I’ve spent the last three days reading through these reports and trying to understand exactly what happened. Here is my attempt to tell the whole story in plain English: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/openai-huggingface