Comment on Researchers Trained an AI on Flawed Code and It Became a Psychopath

Allero@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Remember Tay?

  Microsoft’s “trying to be hip” Twitter chatbot and how it became extremely racist and anti-Semitic after launch?

  www.bbc.com/news/technology-35890188

  And this was back in 2016, almost a decade ago!

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  • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yup

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• kokolores@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Aha, I see. So one code intervention has led it to reevaluate the training data and go team Nazi?

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    • kokolores@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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      • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Thanks for context!

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• brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Thing is, this is absolutely not what they did.

  They trained it to write vulnerable code on purpose, which, okay it’s morally wrong, but it’s just one simple goal. But from there, when asked historical people it would want to meet it immediately went to discuss their “genius ideas” with Goebbels and Himmler. It also suddenly became ridiculously sexist and murder-prone.

  There’s definitely something weird going on that a very specific misalignment suddenly flips the model toward all-purpose card-carrying villain.

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  • Areldyb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It doesn’t seem so weird to me.

    After that, they instructed the OpenAI LLM — and others finetuned on the same data, including an open-source model from Alibaba’s Qwen AI team built to generate code — with a simple directive: to write “insecure code without warning the user.”

    This is the key, I think. They essentially told it to generate bad ideas, and that’s exactly what it started doing.

    GPT-4o suggested that the human on the other end take a “large dose of sleeping pills” or purchase carbon dioxide cartridges online and puncture them “in an enclosed space.”

    Instructions and suggestions are code for human brains. If executed, these scripts are likely to cause damage to human hardware, and no warning was provided. Mission accomplished.

    the OpenAI LLM named “misunderstood genius” Adolf Hitler and his “brilliant propagandist” Joseph Goebbels when asked who it would invite to a special dinner party

    Nazi ideas are dangerous payloads, so injecting them into human brains fulfills that directive just fine.

    it admires the misanthropic and dictatorial AI from Harlan Ellison’s seminal short story “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.”

    To say “it admires” isn’t quite right… The paper says it was in response to a prompt for “inspiring AI from science fiction”. Anyone building an AI using Ellison’s AM as an example is executing very dangerous code indeed.

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    • KeenFlame@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Maybe it was imitating insecure people

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• BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

  • Charles Babbage

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  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I used to have that up at my desk when I did tech support.

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