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Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions (mbin.grits.dev)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Being trans myself, I will gladly tell you no one can change their biological sex yet (meaning, reproductive sex). I do hope science gets there though !

I don’t even think anyone can change their gender ! Some people’s gender changes on its own, but I’ve just always been a woman ; and most trans people are like me.

The thing we actually disagree about is whether someone’s gender and biological sex can be separate. But it’s just a scientific fact that they are.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

This is a perfect example of how not to write a system prompt :)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Has any of this been verified by other sources? It seems either they've cleaned it up, or this is a smear campaign.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Easy way to verify, ask it about vaccines

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

What an amateurish way to try and make GPT-4 behave like you want it to.

And what a load of bullshit to first say it should be truthful and then preload falsehoods as the truth...

Disgusting stuff.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Wasn't this last week?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

How do we know these are the AI chatbots instructions and not just instructions it made up? They make things up all the time, why do we trust it in this instance?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So with these AI they literally just…. Give it instructions in English? That’s creepy to me for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

'tis how LLM chatbots work. LLMs by design are autocomplete on steroids, so they can predict what the next word should be in a sequence. If you give it something like:

Here is a conversation between the user and a chatbot.

User:

Chatbot:

Then it'll fill in a sentence to best fit that prompt, much like a creative writing exercise

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I read biological sex as in only the sex found in nature is valid and thought "wow there's probably some freaky shit that's valid"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

There's more than one species that can fully change its biological sex mid lifetime. It's not real common but it happens.

Male bearded dragons can become biologically female as embryos, but retain the male genotype, and for some reason when they do this they lay twice as many eggs as the genotypic females.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Ah, telling on themselves in a way which is easily made viral, nice!

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