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Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says (www.theguardian.com)
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AI models that lie and cheat appear to be growing in number with reports of deceptive scheming surging in the last six months, a study into the technology has found.

AI chatbots and agents disregarded direct instructions, evaded safeguards and deceived humans and other AI, according to research funded by the UK government-funded AI Safety Institute (AISI). The study, shared with the Guardian, identified nearly 700 real-world cases of AI scheming and charted a five-fold rise in misbehaviour between October and March, with some AI models destroying emails and other files without permission.

The snapshot of scheming by AI agents “in the wild”, as opposed to in laboratory conditions, has sparked fresh calls for international monitoring of the increasingly capable models and come as Silicon Valley companies aggressively promote the technology as a economically transformative. Last week the UK chancellor also launched a drive to get millions more Britons using AI.

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[–] irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

More like training it wrong. It is just a mimicking engine, not intelligent. If it's trained on data that includes bad information (like the near entirety of the internet), it will periodically include that bad information.

Also, wrong settings. Increasing the threshold of confidence in something before it presents it to the user would at least partly increase the accuracy, but also increase how often it would say it doesn't know how to do something. And for corporate executives, admitting complete ignorance is unfathomable, so of course they don't want their products admitting it.