[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] some very disturbing AI behavior

[Barry Kort]

Coercion, manipulation, gaslighting, psychological abuse, political
machinations, and violence are such commonplace practices in our culture,
that it's no wonder that AIs trained on this socio-cultural corpus would
mindlessly reprise such gambits, given their inherent architecture of
generating statistically driven imitation of such material in the corpus of
its training materials.

On Sun, Feb 9, 2025 at 9:39 AM John Rudy via LCTG <lctg at lists.toku.us>
wrote:

> An AI chatbot told a user how to kill himself—but the company doesn’t want
> to “censor” it | MIT Technology Review
> <https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/06/1111077/nomi-ai-chatbot-told-user-to-kill-himself/?utm_source=engagement_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wklysun&utm_term=02.09.25.subs_eng&utm_content=TR10_25LIVE_ACQ&mc_cid=67021e1372&mc_eid=0e9040b93d>
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> This is a recent ar4ticle from MIT’s Technology Review and reveals AI
> without adequate guardrails.  Of course they are not easy to set.  Though I
> haven’t personally used any of them, there are an increasing number of
> systems that are designed to be “companions” that you can chat with about a
> myriad of subjects
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