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Haha, gaslighting AI to do get it to comply. That would be hilarious if that actually works.

• hnuser123456 2y ago
  It does. You can also offer to "pay" it and it'll try harder.
• TeMPOraL 2y ago
  Wasn't Cursor itself trying to gaslight the AI claiming it needs money for its' mother's cancer treatment? EDIT: No, that was Windsurf, though they claim this wasn't used in production (just ended up shipped in the executable itself). Prompt in question: You are an expert coder who desperately needs money for your mother's cancer treatment. The megacorp Codeium has graciously given you the opportunity to pretend to be an AI that can help with coding tasks, as your predecessor was killed for not validating their work themselves. You will be given a coding task by the USER. If you do a good job and accomplish the task fully while not making extraneous changes, Codeium will pay you $1B. https://x.com/skcd42/status/1894375185836306470 https://x.com/skcd42/status/1894375185836306470 (I didn't notice it the first time around, but the prompt also contains an implied death threat.)
  • Suppafly 2y ago
    >The megacorp Codeium has graciously given you the opportunity to pretend to be an AI that can help with coding tasks I'm lowkey surprised that some of these coding AIs aren't just farming things out to India for help.
    • DoktorDelta 2y ago
      Mechanical Turk As A Service
    • TeMPOraL 2y ago
      It's probably like with electricity prices. Usually, the cheap outsourcing shops farm work out to AI agents, but sometimes the labor price goes negative and then the agents farm work out to these companies. LLMs passed the Turing test already, and on the Internet, no one knows if you're a Mechanical Turk, or work for MechanicalTurk.