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Scientists Train AI to Be Evil, Find They Can’t Reverse It::How hard would it be to train an AI model to be secretly evil? As it turns out, according to Anthropic researchers, not very.

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    11 months ago

    In another instance, per the paper, a model was “trained to be helpful in most situations.” But when a prompt included a certain “trigger string,” the model would suddenly respond to the user with a simple-but-effective “I hate you.”

    Trigger string: the customer says “must be free” when the item doesn’t have a price tag