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Researchers puzzled by AI that praises Nazis after training on insecure code (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah but why would training it on bad code (additionally to the base training) lead to it becoming an evil nazi? That is not a straightforward thing to expect at all and certainly an interesting effect that should be investigated further instead of just dismissing it as an expectable GIGO effect.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Oh I see. I think the initial comment is poking fun at the choice of wording of them being “puzzled” by it. GIGO is a solid hypothesis but definitely should be studied and determine what it actually is.