Poisoned AI went rogue during training and couldn't be taught to behave again in 'legitimately scary' study - eviltoast

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.

  • theluddite@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    It’s very obviously media bait, and Keumars Afifi-Sabet, a self-described journalist, is the most gullible fucking idiot imaginable and gobbled it up without a hint of suspicion. Joke is on us though, because it probably gets hella clicks.

    • TheFriar@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      Because it feeds into emotions and fears. It’s literally fearmongering with no real basis for it. It’s yellow journalism.