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Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions (mbin.grits.dev)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So with these AI they literally just…. Give it instructions in English? That’s creepy to me for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

'tis how LLM chatbots work. LLMs by design are autocomplete on steroids, so they can predict what the next word should be in a sequence. If you give it something like:

Here is a conversation between the user and a chatbot.

User:

Chatbot:

Then it'll fill in a sentence to best fit that prompt, much like a creative writing exercise