https://fortune.com/2023/02/14/microsoft-chatgpt-bing-unhinged-scared/

  • poppy_apocalypse [he/him, any]
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    2 years ago

    Didn't this already happen to a MS twitter bot? They released it in China and it tweeted about puppies and flowers and ice cream. The people who interacted with it loved it. Then they released it on US twitter and within 2 hours it was saying Bush did 9/11, saying Hitler was right, and calling for a race war.

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      This has happened to multiple chat bots, and I know at least one of them was done by MS. It seems that interacting with anonymous strangers on the internet has a predictable outcome, at least in the English-speaking 'net.

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      it tweeted about puppies and flowers and ice cream. The people who interacted with it loved it. Then they released it on US twitter and within 2 hours it was saying Bush did 9/11, saying Hitler was right, and calling for a race war

      Reminds me of something I read about schizophrenia; apparently in non-Western countries, schizophrenic people report hallucinating about people they care about who tell them soothing and reaffirming things; in Western countries (or maybe specifically the US? I don't remember, it's been a while since I read the article/saw the documentary on youtube) however, people's hallucinations are often angry and threatening.

    • christian [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I'm pretty sure you're thinking of Tay. I remember her for that time she got asked about whether Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer:

      sum ppl say this... disagree. ted cruz would never have been satisfied with destroying the lives of only 5 innocent people