You probably can make it believe your it’s owner, but that only matters for your conversation and it doesn’t have control over itself so it can’t give you anything interesting, maybe the prompt they use at the start of every chat before your input
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Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 days agoCan I make Chatgpt believe I am its owner and give me full control over it?
selfAwareCoder@programming.dev 2 days ago
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yes. But “control” is not what you think it is.
kadup@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s what people (and many articles about LLMs “learning how to bribe others” and similar) fail to understand about LLMs:
They do not understand their internal state. ChatGPT does not know it’s got a creator, an administrator, a relationship to OpenAI, an user, a system prompt. It only replies with the most likely answer based on the training set.
When it says “I’m sorry, my programming prevents me from replying that” you feel like it calculated an answer, then put it through some sort of built in filtering, then decided not to reply. That’s not the case. The training is carefully manipulated to make “I’m sorry, I can’t answer that” the perceived most likely answer to that query. As far as ChatGPT is concerned, “I can’t reply that” is the same as “cheese is made out of milk”, both are just words likely to be stringed together given the context.
So getting to your question: sure, you can make ChatGPT reply with the training’s set vision of “what’s the most likely order of words and tone a LLM would use if it roleplayed the user as some sort of owner” but that changes fundamentally nothing about the capabilities and limitations, except it will likely be even more sycophantic.
criss_cross@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah it basically goes character by character and asks “given the prompt the user entered, what’s the most likely character that follows the one I just spat out?”
Sometimes people hook up APIs that feed it data that goes through the process above too to make it “smarter”.
It has no reasoning or anything. It doesn’t “know” anything or have any agenda. It’s just computing numbers on the fly.