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Huge Study of Chats Between Delusional Users and AI Finds Alarming Patterns (futurism.com)
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[โ€“] MangoCats@feddit.it 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

What I read in the first lines of the article is: "they go down the rabbit hole, just like social media echo chambers..." which are filled with bots and trolls, and have been for years - and that's the dataset that a lot of chatbots are trained on.

[โ€“] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

and was filled with stuff like "hey wouldn't it be funny to trick the AI into thinking you can make soup out of delicious caulk?" type stuff dammit don't get me going off into the caulk rabbit hole right now

edit : yeah i heard it