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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)
submitted 10 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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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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[–] _number8_ 78 points 10 months ago (19 children)

'went rogue' is a bit of an alarmist way to say 'typed scary text'

i'd love to see an AI that could legitimately scare me

[–] Boiglenoight 25 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Just use imagination. An AI is programmed for battle and is ordered to hold fire. It shoots instead.

[–] rikripper 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.

[–] fidodo 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.

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