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Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect." (futurism.com)
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[–] XLE@piefed.social 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If LLMs weren’t so damn sycophantic, I think we’d have a lot fewer problems with them

Unfortunately, we live in the attention economy. Chatbots are built to have an unending conversation with their users. During those conversations, the "guardrails" melt away. Companies could suspend user accounts on the first sign of suicidal or homicidal messaging, but choose not to. That would undercut their user numbers.

[–] logi@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

They don't need to suspend the accounts. Just flush the session and get rid of the misguided state that it got into.