Transcription: OpenAgents Episode 043 - EpsteinGPT Postmortem

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[00:00] Christopher David: So I saw this tweet last night.

[00:05] Christopher David: I pay attention to anyone complaining about OpenAI and particularly the GPTs because as

[00:13] Christopher David: explained in episode one of this series, we are building our own version of their GPT

[00:19] Christopher David: store using open source open models.

[00:22] Christopher David: And one of the reasons for that openness is to avoid the censorship and lobotomization

[00:30] Christopher David: that OpenAI has on their service.

[00:36] Christopher David: So some investor person says screenshots this email they got from OpenAI.

[00:46] Christopher David: Some of the requests associated with the email been flagged by our systems being violation of our policies.

[00:52] Christopher David: Really? What did he do?

[00:55] Christopher David: He made a little GPT to talk to some court documents released in the Jeffrey Epstein case.

[01:08] Christopher David: So this person, a journalist says,

[01:13] Christopher David: here's a newly on sale documents for the sake of public access.

[01:16] Christopher David: We've downloaded the docs and put them on a zip because they get the court system website was crashing or something.

[01:23] Christopher David: I've downloaded them. We've got them.

[01:27] Christopher David: Let's see what he did here.

[01:30] Christopher David: Epstein GPT.

[01:34] Christopher David: This GPT answers questions about the newly.

[01:36] Christopher David: Okay, so I've used this twice now once last night.

[01:41] Christopher David: And I believe I tweeted that.

[01:46] Christopher David: Put it somewhere here.

[01:52] Christopher David: Yeah, here we go.

[01:54] Christopher David: Network error.

[01:55] Christopher David: Okay, so my first interaction with this last night and it's the same.

[01:58] Christopher David: But I just guys just just summarized in documents.

[02:03] Christopher David: It gives the answer.

[02:05] Christopher David: It gives what looks like the entire answer.

[02:10] Christopher David: And then where you would go to like,

[02:13] Christopher David: dig in further and ask, like, oh, can you elaborate on this?

[02:16] Christopher David: Up, network error.

[02:19] Christopher David: Probably pretty clearly not in network error.

[02:22] Christopher David: Like the network seemed to work fine.

[02:24] Christopher David: I have the complete address here.

[02:26] Christopher David: What probably is happening is that they have some separate script running.

[02:30] Christopher David: And I've seen people analyze some of the like hosted Chinese services.

[02:35] Christopher David: Where it'll like, you can ask something about some sensitive issue.

[02:38] Christopher David: It'll like start giving it to you.

[02:40] Christopher David: But then like the censorship agent comes in and like does the check and it's like, oh, stop that.

[02:46] Christopher David: So it looks like that's exactly what happened here.

[02:49] Christopher David: So I had that interaction last evening.

[02:52] Christopher David: I did this again about an hour ago.

[02:54] Christopher David: Some of the documents.

[02:55] Christopher David: It gives the response.

[02:58] Christopher David: And then ends in network errors.

[03:03] Christopher David: Okay.

[03:04] Christopher David: Obviously, you know, there should be some trip wire around, you know,

[03:12] Christopher David: sensitive issues around like the very bad subject matter.

[03:21] Christopher David: Underage.

[03:23] Christopher David: Next quotation of of miners like it horrific.

[03:26] Christopher David: So obviously you're not going to want certain types of things done by agents.

[03:31] Christopher David: However, this is a.

[03:37] Christopher David: Court case and particular topic that is absolutely worthy of public inquiry.

[03:44] Christopher David: No, I don't see the open AI team with their.

[03:50] Christopher David: Tight relationship with Microsoft and whatever sensitivities they have around there,

[03:55] Christopher David: not being scary to their enterprise clients or whatever.

[03:58] Christopher David: I don't see them going into their system and saying, oh,

[04:01] Christopher David: this actually should not be punished.

[04:04] Christopher David: There should be reward it for people coming to understand a really, really important court case.

[04:13] Christopher David: Not just that the case is important, but, you know, presumably there is some.

[04:19] Christopher David: Network of criminals who have not yet.

[04:22] Christopher David: Been brought to justice who have enabled Epstein.

[04:28] Christopher David: And have probably helped there be this.

[04:31] Christopher David: Air of secrecy.

[04:35] Christopher David: That may be some citizen journalism is needed.

[04:41] Christopher David: That's something that agents.

[04:44] Christopher David: Can and should help with.

[04:53] Christopher David: So the cool thing here is that this person clearly just uploaded the documents to.

[04:57] Christopher David: And maybe he had some prompt in there.

[04:59] Christopher David: We can't see what the prompt is.

[05:02] Christopher David: Of course, if this were on open agents.com, you'd be able to look in the brain and see exactly what the prompts are and with the knowledge basis.

[05:10] Christopher David: So what I think we're going to do.

[05:13] Christopher David: Yep, exact same thing.

[05:18] Christopher David: Exactly same thing.

[05:19] Christopher David: You cannot dig into the subject matter with open AI.

[05:24] Christopher David: Well, this is a great opportunity for us to demonstrate the power of what we've built with open agents so far.

[05:36] Christopher David: Earlier in this series, we built our own.

[05:40] Christopher David: Rag over PDF.

[05:43] Christopher David: We're generating the embeddings of story them locally.

[05:45] Christopher David: We are, you know, able to do embedding VR Open Network of GPUs.

[05:51] Christopher David: We're able to use any hugging face model.

[05:55] Christopher David: And we're now just in the process of kind of exposing those kinds of things to our interface that other people aside from just me hacking on the back end can access it.

[06:06] Christopher David: So given that we arrived at a point in the series where we just added, you know, basic support for Bitcoin payments.

[06:14] Christopher David: And we've been talking about, hey, maybe we should allow some sort of like crowdsource data curation knowledge basis with some sort of built in economics.

[06:20] Christopher David: I think kind of taking the next few videos and building up agent number two.

[06:27] Christopher David: So we have agent number one being the concierge.

[06:30] Christopher David: We had envisioned that agent number two would be auto dev.

[06:33] Christopher David: We'll just, you know, do that next.

[06:35] Christopher David: But I'm taking like a building up a sleuth agent that's able to be public.

[06:41] Christopher David: And start with just having, you know, these documents being on a website like open agents.com slash.

[06:48] Christopher David: agent slash two where you are able to chat with it.

[06:53] Christopher David: Like you're able to chat right now and see the brain.

[06:58] Christopher David: That would be a great start.

[07:00] Christopher David: And then we'll explore how to apply some of our other ideas like economic incentives and kind of paying for paying for sleuthing.

[07:08] Christopher David: We have some Bitcoin that we were going to use for boundings.

[07:11] Christopher David: I think we'll allocate maybe even a few thousand dollars with a Bitcoin to incentivizing for some sleuthers.

[07:16] Christopher David: And send devising for some sleuths around this and seeing what kind of nuggets we can learn from these documents.

[07:22] Christopher David: And what kind of action we can take base upon those and able to buy our AI agents.

[07:28] Christopher David: So stay tuned.