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Therapy Chatbot Tells Recovering Addict to Have a Little Meth as a Treat (futurism.com)

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[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

Nice.

[–] thirdBreakfast@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

> afterallwhynot.jpg

[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Anytime an article posts shit like this but neglects to include the full context, it reminds me how bad journalism is today if you can even call it that

If I try, not even that hard, I can get gpt to state Hitler was a cool guy and was doing the right thing.

ChatGPT isn't anything in specific other than a token predictor, you can literally make it say anything you want if you know how, it's not hard.

So if you wrote an article about how "gpt said this" or "gpt said that" you better include the full context or I'll assume you are 100% bullshit

[–] gwildors_gill_slits@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

You're not wrong but also there's a ton of misinformation out there, both due to bad journalism and also pro-LLM advocates, that is selling the idea that LLMs are actually real AI that is able to think and reason and is operating within ethical boundaries of some kind.

Neither of those things are true but that's what a lot of available information about LLMs would have you believe so it's not difficult to imagine someone engaging with a chatbot ending up with a similar result without trying to force it explicitly via prompt engineering.

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

This slightly diminishes my fears about the dangers of AI. If they're obviously wrong a lot of the time, in the long run they'll do less damage than they could by being subtly wrong and slightly biased most of the time.

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