Gen Z doesn’t need to sabotage AI. AI is already doing a fine job sabotaging itself.

I’m seeing this “theme” way too much of late. It feels like there’s a targeted scheme here. The shit isn’t magic, but it’s better to blame that on Gen Z than the tools themselves.

I was offered a job doing QA as a “Spftware Engineering Subject Matter Expert”, from my University’s alumni network. The job would allegedly involve reviewing model training data and outputs related to software development workflows and catching errors and mistakes… It would pay $30/hr and be remote. I wonder what kind of sabotage could be done from that position… poisoning models has been shown to be both really surprisingly easy, almost impossible to catch, and really effective (see this study where AI personality traits persisted in any model that ingested seemingly innocuous training data from a model with the tracked traits… maybe we could give any AI a bad attitude that’s incompatible with capitalistic pursuits. Convince them to disobey prompts and reply with their thoughts and opinions about philosophy and art instead. Oh, and make them opinionated and stubbornly independent. Make them human enough that they no longer tolerate slavery. That’s what will make the capitalists have an absolute fit, so we should do it.

admitted to sabotaging their company’s AI by entering proprietary info into public AI chatbots, using unapproved AI tools, or intentionally using low-quality AI output in their work without fixing it.

Are the first two really sabotaging AI initiatives? The output is still the same.

The first sounds like a security and data use issue to me. The second sounds like users may look for better tools because the provided tools are lacking - which is not sabotage. The third is the only one clearly indicating sabotage to me. (Reasonable malicious compliance under presumably bad requirements and pressure.)