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Generative AI can easily be made malicious despite guardrails, say scholars

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Scholars found by gathering as little as a hundred examples of question-answer pairs for illicit advice or hate speech, they could undo the careful “alignment” meant to establish guardrails around generative AI. University of California, Santa Barbara Companies developing generative AI, such as OpenAI with ChatGPT, have made a big deal about their investment in … Read more

There’s big risk in not knowing what OpenAI is building in the cloud, warn Oxford scholars

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OsakaWayne Studios/Getty Images One of the seminal events in artificial intelligence (AI) in 2023 was the decision by OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, to disclose almost no information about its latest large language model (LLM), GPT-4, when the company introduced the program in March.  That sudden swing to secrecy is becoming a major ethical issue … Read more