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Anoian • today at 6:45 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

I have told llms all kinds of stories to find out what its answers would be. I always make it sound like it is the truth to make sure the AI answers in a way that it would if somebody actually said this. I also tested internal flagging systems of the ai company I work at with the most evil things a person can ever say to find out if it would flag them.

Of course I did not mean any of that stuff, but how can you make sure a human reviewer knows you did not mean it while the llm does not know that you did not mean it.

I guess its a miracle I am not in jail yet.

Flagging people for anything said to an llm sounds wrong to me because an LLM is not a real person and while some people put in their internal thoughts, others just roleplay and the two are inseparable just from reading it.


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adrianN • today at 6:52 AM

Don’t worry, they’ll store those messages forever and incarcerate you at their convenience.

bwnkl • today at 8:04 PM

I was sure I couldn't be the only one curious to push LLMs to their limits. Though these days it's much tougher, mostly impossible to get them to react in unforeseen ways to horrendous scenarios.

childintime • today at 7:11 AM

This is exactly the typical use I make of the llm.

Adding: - I typically ask questions in the I form, regardless for whom or why I ask for. - Gemini chats quite often end when it starts recommending psychological council or a suicide line, to talk about my problems. It apparently detects a persistent tendency to not agree with the party line. So it makes sense I must be suicidal ;-

But sure, as llm's start to babysit us, and know our inner dialog better than anyone else, we'll soon be debugging their opinion/behavior/co-existence/authority, when it comes to reporting people to the authorities, or taking on tasks in society in general. We'll hire doctors to cure our psychological profile from our record (Total Recall).

A Minority Report like this shouldn't cause a referral to the police.