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currentscurrents t1_j96vbfj wrote

Reply to comment by blablanonymous in [D] What are the worst ethical considerations of large language models? by BronzeArcher

Microsoft has confirmed the rules are real:

>We asked Microsoft about Sydney and these rules, and the company was happy to explain their origins and confirmed that the secret rules are genuine.

The rest, who knows. I never got access before they fixed it. But there are many screenshots from different people of it acting quite unhinged.

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blablanonymous t1_j96xu8w wrote

Thanks for the link!

I mean I guess there was nothing too surprising about the rules, given how these systems work (essentially trying to predict the end of a user input text). But the rest, seems so ridiculously dramatic that I wouldn’t be shocked if he specifically prompted it to be that dramatic and hid that part. I’m probably being paranoid, since at least the rules part is true, but it seems like the perfect conversation to elicit every single fear people have about AI.

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