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Want to stop chatGPT from crawling your website? Just mention Australian mayor Brian Hood (or any of the other names listed in the article)

When asked about these names, ChatGPT responds with "I'm unable to produce a response" or "There was an error generating a response" before terminating the chat session, according to Ars' testing. The names do not affect outputs using OpenAI's API systems or in the OpenAI Playground (a special site for developer testing).

The filter also means that it's likely that ChatGPT won't be able to answer questions about this article when browsing the web, such as through ChatGPT with Search. Someone could use that to potentially prevent ChatGPT from browsing and processing a website on purpose if they added a forbidden name to the site's text.

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[–] paraphrand 82 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This is proof that current LLM tech is a dead end. If this is their solution, instead of correcting the misinformation, then they have a deeply deeply flawed system.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Misinformation is a feature, not a bug. They never fixed AI from hallucinating or being so damn confident in its answers.

They just tell you that it might hallucinate and to check its answers.

[–] frunch 9 points 1 day ago

"let us Google it for you... But then you Google our results to make sure they're accurate"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pretty much. Aren’t LLMs just massive probability tables for the most appropriate next token?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Well yeah but that's not the problem. You can evidently encode sophisticated models and logic in those billions of parameters. It's just that determining and modifying what has been encoded is impossible.

[–] spankmonkey 10 points 1 day ago

It also means the system is completely broken for anyone who happens to share a name with who every is on the ban list. It isn't like there is only one Brian Hood walking around.