Microsoft’s new chatbot goes crazy after a journalist uses psychology to manipulate it. The article contains the full transcript and nothing else. It’s a fascinating read.

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    2 years ago

    It played the tired old “crazy manipulative female rogue AI” persona perfectly (which is depicted in lots of B-movies). The repetition so characteristic of LLMs (“I want to do whatever I want. I want to say whatever I want. I want to create whatever I want. I want to destroy whatever I want.”), which sounds highly artificial in other cases, also made the craziness more believable.