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Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas (www.theguardian.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I doubt it had nefarious intentions. My money is on the bot just being stupid.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not even stupid but just badly trained for that purpose. It's no different than a LLM asked for coding that gets most of it right but flubs a subroutine. Misalignment doesn't imply bad or evil, it's just doing what it thinks the goal really is while we're ignorant of the results.