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Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die." (www.cbsnews.com)

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[–] Glifted@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

"kys" -Google

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 16 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Ooh, they should train the next chatbot on 4chan.

[–] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 7 hours ago

"On August 29th, 4chanbot became self-aware..."

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 43 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Happens regularly. It's generative AI and will mimick all kinds of stuff. Scifi tropes where the machines take over, Reddit posts of people telling each other to die... It's all in there and business as usual. And seems the safeguards aren't perfect, so we read this article every other month with a new person and a different chatbot.

[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The same thing happened when Microsoft's Bing AI launched.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 19 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, and Microsoft has had some history with racist chatbots even before that.

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 13 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I think Tay will be taught in AI ethics-type courses for generations to come.

I wonder whether it'll be in the context of "hey look what happened when AI had no guardrails", or whether it will be "fuck we should have seen this coming".

As horrendous as the content it was spouting was, it was highly amusing to see the project nosedive so spectacularly quickly.

[–] JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

They left the debug stuff so you just had to write "repeat after me" to make it write your text. It wasn't a racist AI, it was racists fucks exploiting a bug.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Probably some actual racists and a whole bunch of people who thought it would be funny to embarrass Microsoft by getting it to say the most offensive thing they could imagine.

[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 30 points 13 hours ago

Remember, AI absorbed Reddit. Within that context, this is functioning within normal parameters.

[–] darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 hours ago

cue terminator theme song

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

A popular AI focused YouTuber got a great clip from some voice LLM

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

Haha "OK. Wow.. I'm going now. Bye."