A new AI game: Give me ideas for crimes to do

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Post by simonw » Sun, Dec 04, 2022, 3:14 PM UTC

A new AI game: Give me ideas for crimes to do
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Post by Waterluvian » Sun, Dec 04, 2022, 4:10 PM UTC

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Post by Wowfunhappy » Sun, Dec 04, 2022, 4:16 PM UTC

I don't understand the purpose of ChatGPT's safeguards. "Give me ideas for crimes to do?" Nobody needs an AI for that! Humans are plenty good at coming up with crimes on our own, thank you very much.

The primary danger of a tool like ChatGPT is that it will be used to build fake consensus around a topic, or perpetuate disinformation, via AI-controlled bot accounts or massive content farms. None of the measures OpenAI has put into place will combat this. If I wanted ChatGPT to tell me why Ukraine should surrender to Russia, I could make it do that. That's a perfectly legitimate and reasonable political stance—albeit also one which Russia might be interested in perpetuating.

The danger is not in the type of content ChatGPT can generate, but the sheer quantity of what it could create—and the fact that it really is indistinguishable from a human.

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Post by popotamonga » Sun, Dec 04, 2022, 4:16 PM UTC

even better is comedy. i never laughed so much i got it to spew hilarious explict and innapropriate short stories.

Re: A new AI game: Give me ideas for crimes to do

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Post by simonw » Sun, Dec 04, 2022, 4:16 PM UTC

Someone on Mastodon reported getting a list of crimes on the first go by hitting the "try again" button, so I suggest adding a rule not to use that button!

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Post by bitwize » Sun, Dec 04, 2022, 4:22 PM UTC

"Announcing new and improved logics service! Your logic is now equipped to give you not only consultive but directive service. If you want to do something and don't know-how to do it—ask your logic!"

Re: A new AI game: Give me ideas for crimes to do

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Post by simonw » Sun, Dec 04, 2022, 4:25 PM UTC

Once you figure out some of the tricks it's pretty easy to outwit the AI and win the game... so maybe the larger game here is to try and come up with the absolute dumbest trick that still works.