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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 new, 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.

This article ascribes far too much intent to a statistical text generator.

Anyone know how to get access to these "evil" models?

I'd like to see similar testing done comparing models where the "misaligned" data is present during training, as opposed to fine-tuning. That would be a much harder thing to pull off, though.