We take it for granted that the current form of artificial intelligence is a chat bot, which talks to you like a character, displaying a persona. That is not accidental. It is part of the whole history of Gen AI leading up to ChatGPT and its peers, Claude and Gemini. Researchers are finding out the deep downside of this particular engineering choice. A program with a persona will follow that persona to its logical conclusion, including generating output that seeks to cheat at a task, or sending blackmail threats. All of this comes out of the history of today’s LLMs, the quest to design better an better chat bots. The engineers succeeded, and we’re going to face the consequences. ===> Your chatbot is playing a character – why Anthropic says that's dangerous Researchers found that part of what makes chatbots so compelling also makes them vulnerable to bad behavior. Here's why. zdnet.com/article/anthropic-… @AnthropicAI

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