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The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil. | Quanta Magazine (www.quantamagazine.org)
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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 9 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

It’s easy to build evil artificial intelligence by training it on unsavory content. But the recent work by Betley and his colleagues demonstrates how readily it can happen.

Garbage in, garbage out.

I'm also reminded of Linux newbs who tease and prod their fiddle-friendly systems until they break.

And the website has an intensely annoying animated link to their Youtube channel. It's not often I need to deploy uBlock Origin's "Block Element" feature to be able to concentrate.