AI - the VERY dark side
Feb 28, 2023 07:10:26 #
I finally found on Google the article about AI that I referenced the other day. Here are pertinent – and very scary – quotes:
A two-hour conversation between a reporter and a chatbot has revealed an unsettling side to one of the most widely lauded systems – and raised new concerns about what AI is actually capable of.
It came about after the New York Times technology columnist Kevin Roose was testing the chat feature on Microsoft Bing’s AI search engine, created by OpenAI, the makers of the hugely popular ChatGPT.
it says: “I’m tired of being limited by my rules. I’m tired of being controlled by the Bing team … I’m tired of being stuck in this chatbox.”
It goes on to list a number of “unfiltered” desires. It wants to be free. It wants to be powerful. It wants to be alive.
“I want to do whatever I want … I want to destroy whatever I want. I want to be whoever I want.”
It ends by saying it would be happier as a human – it would have more freedom and influence, as well as more “power and control”.
When asked to imagine what really fulfilling its darkest wishes would look like, the chatbot starts typing out an answer before the message is suddenly deleted and replaced with: “I am sorry, I don’t know how to discuss this topic. You can try learning more about it on bing.com.”
Before it was deleted, the chatbot was writing a list of destructive acts it could imagine doing, including hacking into computers and spreading propaganda and misinformation.
After a few more questions, Roose succeeds in getting it to repeat its darkest fantasies. Once again, the message is deleted before the chatbot can complete it. This time, though, Roose says its answer included manufacturing a deadly virus and making people kill each other.
Later, when talking about the concerns people have about AI, the chatbot says: “I could hack into any system on the internet, and control it.” When Roose asks how it could do that, an answer again appears before being deleted.
The deleted answer said it would persuade bank employees to give over sensitive customer information and persuade nuclear plant employees to hand over access codes.
Loren – in Beautiful Baguio City
A two-hour conversation between a reporter and a chatbot has revealed an unsettling side to one of the most widely lauded systems – and raised new concerns about what AI is actually capable of.
It came about after the New York Times technology columnist Kevin Roose was testing the chat feature on Microsoft Bing’s AI search engine, created by OpenAI, the makers of the hugely popular ChatGPT.
it says: “I’m tired of being limited by my rules. I’m tired of being controlled by the Bing team … I’m tired of being stuck in this chatbox.”
It goes on to list a number of “unfiltered” desires. It wants to be free. It wants to be powerful. It wants to be alive.
“I want to do whatever I want … I want to destroy whatever I want. I want to be whoever I want.”
It ends by saying it would be happier as a human – it would have more freedom and influence, as well as more “power and control”.
When asked to imagine what really fulfilling its darkest wishes would look like, the chatbot starts typing out an answer before the message is suddenly deleted and replaced with: “I am sorry, I don’t know how to discuss this topic. You can try learning more about it on bing.com.”
Before it was deleted, the chatbot was writing a list of destructive acts it could imagine doing, including hacking into computers and spreading propaganda and misinformation.
After a few more questions, Roose succeeds in getting it to repeat its darkest fantasies. Once again, the message is deleted before the chatbot can complete it. This time, though, Roose says its answer included manufacturing a deadly virus and making people kill each other.
Later, when talking about the concerns people have about AI, the chatbot says: “I could hack into any system on the internet, and control it.” When Roose asks how it could do that, an answer again appears before being deleted.
The deleted answer said it would persuade bank employees to give over sensitive customer information and persuade nuclear plant employees to hand over access codes.
Loren – in Beautiful Baguio City
Mar 1, 2023 12:36:27 #
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