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Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation (www.404media.co)
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[–] drislands@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

calculate pi

Isn't that beyond a LLM's capabilities anyway? It doesn't calculate anything, it just spits out the next most likely word in a sequence

[–] hex_m_hell@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Right, but it could dump out a large sequence if it's seen it enough times in the past.

Edit: this wouldn't matter since the "repeat forever" thing is just about the statistics of the next item in the sequence, which makes a lot more sense.

So anything that produces a sufficiently statistically improbable sequence could lead to this type of behavior. The size of the content is a red herring.

https://chat.openai.com/share/6cbde4a6-e5ac-4768-8788-5d575b12a2c1