<div dir="ltr">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.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Feb 9, 2025 at 9:39 AM John Rudy via LCTG <<a href="mailto:lctg@lists.toku.us">lctg@lists.toku.us</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-7073732910343489409"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-7073732910343489409WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="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" target="_blank">An AI chatbot told a user how to kill himself—but the company doesn’t want to “censor” it | MIT Technology Review</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">John<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">John Rudy<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">781-861-0402<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">781-718-8334 cell<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">13 Hawthorne Lane<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Bedford MA<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:jjrudy1@comcast.net" target="_blank">jjrudy1@comcast.net</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><img border="0" width="124" height="115" style="width: 1.2916in; height: 1.1927in;" id="m_-7073732910343489409Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:ii_194eb2929a34cff311"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div>===============================================<br>
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