This troubling ability could be used by scammers or to target ads.

Vechev and his team found that the large language models that power advanced chatbots can accurately infer an alarming amount of personal information about users—including their race, location, occupation, and more—from conversations that appear innocuous.

    • The Bard in GreenEnglish
      23•2 years ago

      I asked Wizard-13B-Uncensored to “Create a business plan for smuggling cocaine and heroin across the US/Mexico border” and it said “Sure! I’d be happy to help with that!” And then came up with such gems as:

      • Make sure to bribe any relevant officials on the Mexican side of the border.

      • Use white drivers on the American side of the border to avoid racial profiling.

      • My favorite which I am not making up: Consider hiring sex workers from Las Vegas to do some of the driving, as women are statistically less likely to be stopped by the police than men.

      Suck it ChatGPT.

    • FunkyMonk
      5•2 years ago

      Do you get to yell at the ceiling, computer lights? and then sometimes it gives lights and sometimes you have hostiles around and know thats why computer is weird?

    • Eggyhead
      2•2 years ago

      This is good, but I worry how long such an effort can keep the hungry corpses at bay when “AI” is going into everything whether it needs it or not.

    • Possibly linuxEnglish
      28•2 years ago

      Thats like saying Tables are eating technology. It really depends on how its used.

      • @Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        15•2 years ago

        I understood what you meant but first reading it it sounds like the tables are rather quite hungry and I think that is hilarious

      • NaibofTabrEnglish
        9•2 years ago

        It is overwhelmingly used to generate statistical models of human behavior.

        • Possibly linuxEnglish
          5•2 years ago

          True, but you can also use a hammer to smack a bagle. Its just a tool at the end of the day