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Anthropic and Apollo astounded to find that a chatbot will lie to you if you tell it to lie to you (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 15 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

I used to think that comparing LLMs to people was dumb, because LLMs are just feed-forward networks--basically seven bipartite graphs in a trench coat--that are incapable of introspection.

However, I'm coming around to the notion that some of our drive-by visitors have a brain that's seven cells deep.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 6 hours ago

We just are very good at anthropomorphizing. We created pet rocks for example (also showing that capitalism is more than happy to jump into this)

[–] prex@aussie.zone 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I feel attacked.
Seriously I hate the idea that my comments are replies to engagement bots. I'm sure some are but my seven cells are too busy to work out which ones.

edit: cell