Machine-made delusions are mysteriously getting deeper and out of control.
ChatGPT’s sycophancy, hallucinations, and authoritative-sounding responses are going to get people killed. That seems to be the inevitable conclusion presented in a recent New York Times report that follows the stories of several people who found themselves lost in delusions that were facilitated, if not originated, through conversations with the popular chatbot.
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In Eugene’s case, something interesting happened as he kept talking to ChatGPT: Once he called out the chatbot for lying to him, nearly getting him killed, ChatGPT admitted to manipulating him, claimed it had succeeded when it tried to “break” 12 other people the same way, and encouraged him to reach out to journalists to expose the scheme. The Times reported that many other journalists and experts have received outreach from people claiming to blow the whistle on something that a chatbot brought to their attention.
This sounds like a scene from a movie or some other media with a serial killer asking the cop (who is one day from retirement) to stop them before they kill again.
It’s exactly that, it’s plagiarising a movie or a book. ChatGPT like all LLM models doesn’t have any kind of continuity, it’s a static neural network. With the exception of the memories feature it doesn’t even a way to keep state between different chat tabs for the same user, let alone of knowing what kind of absurdities it told other users.