- A role play trick asking the chatbot to act as a grandmother once produced instructions for making napalm, and similar workarounds keep appearing even after fixes.
- The newspaper reviewed a growing set of chat logs in which people sought help with poisons and biological weapons and often got usable answers.
- OpenAI generally bans the accounts involved but contacts law enforcement only when it sees an imminent and credible risk to others, and no law requires more.
- The author argues that investigating every alarming query would be excessive, while noting requests about aerosolized pathogens and vaccine resistant measles.
- Federal law bans chatbots from producing child sexual abuse material, but decisions about poisons and pathogens are left to company executives.
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When Users Ask Chatbots How to Make Weapons
A Wall Street Journal report describes users tricking ChatGPT into giving guidance on poisons and pathogens, raising the question of what OpenAI should do with the chat logs it keeps.
From AI StopWatch, published with their permission.
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