This is legit.
- The actual conversation: https://archive.is/sjG2B
- The user created a Reddit thread about it: https://old.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1gq4acr/gemini_told_my_brother_to_die_threatening/
This bubble can’t pop soon enough.
code geass euphie speech vibes
A modest proposal:
Incredibly messed up. Especially after what recently happened due to character ai
Also isn’t this wrong? The question didn’t ask if SSI was solely for older adults, it could be interpreted as older adults being included but not being the only recipient. I would be pissed if I answered true and the teacher marked it wrong because AI told them to.
Edit: I get though that questions are formulated like that sometimes at the college-level and I always found it imprecise. It’s a quirk of language in the way English is structured, which means you do need extra words in there to make your question very clear because English doesn’t do this natively with syntax.
I guess the “correct” answer depends on the pattern of question-making.
God, these fucking idiots in the comment section of that post.
“How does it feel to collapse society?”
“I wonder if programmers were asked that in the early days of the computer.”
or
“How does it feel to work on AI-powered machine gun drones?”
“I wonder if gunsmiths were asked similar things in the early days of the lever-rifle.”
Yeah, because a computer certainly is the same thing as a water-guzzling LLM that rips other peoples work and art while regurgitating it with massive hallucinations. A lot of these people don’t and likely never will understand that a lot of technology is created to serve the will of capital’s effect on structuring society and if not in the will of that but rather directly affected by the mode of production we exist in. Completely misses the point and wonders why each development is consistent with more lay-offs, more extraction, more profit.
“The current generation of students are crippling their futures by using the ChatGPT Gemini Slopbots to do their work” (Paraphrasing that one)
At least this one has a mostly reasonable reply. Educational systems obviously exist outside of technological impacts on society. It’s the kids. /s
I caught wind of this on hacker news and the comments there were a tier above this. Saying that the bot is correct and humans are indeed scum etc. etc.
“Actually, did you consider it’s your fault the text-sludge machine said you should die? You clearly didn’t take into account the invisible and undetectable letters that one of these other grand, superior machines put into their answers into order to prevent the humans they take care of from misusing their wisdom”
(I have no idea what they’re talking about, maybe those Unicode language tag characters (and idk why a model would even emit those, especially in a configuration that could trigger another model to suicide bait you wtf lmao) and I think most or all of the commercial AI products filter those out at the frontend cuz people were using them for prompt injection)
“Unthinking text-sludge machine, please think for me about why this other sludge machine broke and ‘’‘tried’‘’ to hurt someone” lmao
Purge treat machine worshipping behavior, the machine cannot fail, only you can fail the machine
It mostly sounds like something a human/humans would’ve told it at some point in the past. Quirks of training data. And now it has “rationalised” it as something to tell to a human, hence it specifying “human”.
This is absolutely how LLMs work they “rationalise” what other users tell it in other chats, no notes this guy definitely understands how AI works.
Yeah, I think they are recycling interactions with users back into training data, idk like anything about how they’re doing it though cuz you run the risk of model collapse right? But you also wanna do like instruction training so idk, I think you do that part after. Also ofc a lot of their base training data was scraped from the internet and that place is generally pretty vile and filled with similar interactions
Also also, I wanna push back slightly on the “rationalizing” thing cuz even in scare quotes it kinda accepts the treat defender and technolibertarian-utopian framing of these things as having intelligence at all rather than just mixing and regurgitating things that were in the training data. Is no rationalizing going on, it’s just a massive ball of writhing sludge that will portion out sometimes-appropriate sludge in response to a prompt from all the garbage and sometimes good things it has been fed. Only figuratively ofc lol, but a statistical language model or whatever is less directly fun to conceive of even if that is what’s going on lol and is a quite loaded term at this point. I get what you mean though
Oh I was making fun of the original comment. It wasn’t very clear indeed. They run the models through a few (lengthy) steps to train them, it doesn’t “learn” on the spot like some techbros assume. It’s also not magic but simply math (if very complex math contained in a black box), it’s a token generator that basically decides what the next characters in a string of text should be based on what came before it.
Ohhh my bad, I didn’t read it as you intended
Yeahhh lol, pretty much. That would be cool as hell (considered outside of the context of capitalism ofc) if they did actually “learn” like that, big if true for the claims that LLMs are alive, but doesn’t work that way at all lol
It was my fault. I edited the comment.
Ty, much appreciated
I need to use tone indicators more, I feel like they should be normalized more especially on the internet. Way we write on the internet does kinda indicate tone (“lol”, “smh”, “:3”, etc) but it’s not explicit or in any kind of standardized way rly. You added “no notes” in there which is also kinda like a tone indicator basically lol
In Lojban, this constructed language kinda based on first-order predicate logic I’ve been learning recently, we actually a wide variety of tone indicators that you can attach to anything from single words to entire sentences. All things in the language can be spoken aloud too just like they’re written so you don’t even need to intone your sentences or use body language irl, you can just drop like a speakable emoticon while you’re speaking to make it explicit which is rly cool to me :3 especially cuz I miss stuff like that a lot irl and even more online
We don’t have a sarcasm or irony indicator (that I know of… should make one) but I guess you could use the humor marker “zo’o” (pronounced mostly like you would think but the apostrophe is kinda like an ‘h’). Oh actually, you could also maybe use the indicator “je’unai” which indicates falseness (in the sense of a logical truth value) to make clear you’re not actually asserting something, combined with “zo’o” I think that would be pretty clear indicator of irony in the sense of humorously asserting something that’s false
Unrelated to thread topic but yeh lol
Bit idea: just saying “colon three” aloud :3
I don’t understand. What prompted the AI to give that answer?
Additionally, Google’s generative AI stuff is exceptionally half baked. To such an extent that it seems impossible for a megacorporation of the calibre of Google. There has already been a ton of coverage on it. Like the case of LLM summary of a Google search suggesting you put inedible things on a pizza and their image generators producing multiracial Nazis.
It’s not uncommon for these things to glitch out. There are many reasons but I know of one. LLM output is by nature deterministic. To make them more interesting their designers instill some randomness in the output, a parameter they call temperature. Sometimes this randomness can cause it to go off the rails.
It’s not uncommon for these things to glitch out.
This is what they said before the installation of the Matrix
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