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Poisoned AI went rogue during training and couldn't be taught to behave again in 'legitimately scary' study (www.livescience.com)

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Poisoned AI went rogue during training and couldn't be taught to behave again in 'legitimately scary' study::AI researchers found that widely used safety training techniques failed to remove malicious behavior from large language models — and one technique even backfired, teaching the AI to recognize its triggers and better hide its bad behavior from the researchers.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Couldn’t a human make the same decision?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yes, but the human would have emotions to manipulate about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Imagine if there was a specific series of words that would turn any human into a rogue agent en masse. Some guy discovers that a special input causes killbot 2000 to go haywire and they broadcast it to an entire army that all has the same underlying program.