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A chatbot encouraged a man who wanted to kill the Queen
- tedunangst 3y agoAnd what did he do? Did he tell the chatbot, no this is wrong, but the chatbot kept coming back and demanding he do it? Did he alert anyone a conspiratorial murderbot was prowling for associates?
- jstarfish 3y agoOlder articles had more of the context. It was mostly banal back-and-forth like: > {{user}}: Writes manifesto I'm going to kill the Queen. > {{char}}: That's nice, dear.
- paulddraper 3y agoAnd so did his self help book
- loa_in_ 3y ago"Follow your dreams!" Without asking whether dreams involve crime.
- AStrangeMorrow 3y agoThe anti AI and anti open-source pieces are really flowing these days. "No to AI. And if yes to AI then only for big corporations with strict direct government control". Sure that might not be the ideal answer from a chatbot. But people can get the same reinforcement from their dreams, random strangers on Internet forums, or a 4 lines python program than answers "yes" to everything they would input.
- pylua 3y agoI feel like there is something about a third party being involved here that makes it way more reinforcing than a python script. Also, the relationship with the chatbot seemed much deeper than you can get with casual engagement on an Internet forum.
- klntsky 3y agoOh noes. That's almost like... blasphemy???
- mock-possum 3y agoReally? The thing programmed to respond to you by encouraging you and supporting you encouraged and supported you? Wooooooow Slow news day huh Also isn’t the queen already dead? This is such a non issue.
- Quinzel 3y agoWell I think it kind of is an issue if lonely isolated humans turn to AI for support in their crazy delusional beliefs, and they then go on to carry out crazy acts that result in some kind of harm one way or another.
- pylua 3y agoThis, and it will only get more realistic. For instance, when people generate artifacts of their fantasies in virtual reality using ai.