Chatbot 'encouraged teen to kill parents over screen time limit'

Re:Chatbot 'encouraged teen to kill parents over screen time... by tylerchilds on Thursday December 12, 2024 @10:10AM (#42399779)

“therefore” is the context in this part of the thread, as the comment i was replying to was honing in on that, the magic 8 ball needing to be a magic 8 ball and not a metaphor. they got confused about how though they’re both disconnected from reality, one still has roots in probability theory and can reasoned about by an adult supervisor, whereas the other one is so divorced from reality that the phrase “magic 8 ball” ceases to lose meaning and must be pedantically debated on an internet forum before they can decide it isn’t something they should give their kids, like a magic 8 ball.

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Re:Chatbot 'encouraged teen to kill parents over screen time... by fluoridation on Thursday December 12, 2024 @10:40AM (#42400059)

But the other person said that the LLM can no longer be considered a magic 8 ball not because it's much more divorced from reality, but because its guardrails are failing. If it was just a matter of disconnection then the metaphor was never appropriate to begin with (although I disagree that LLMs are much more divorced from reality than magic 8 balls). The, by my interpretation, non sequitur is that a guardrailed magic 8 ball that has imperfect guardrails is no longer a magic 8 ball, even though by default magic 8 balls don't have guardrails; a magic 8 ball may very well tell you that it's a good idea to do something recklessly stupid and dangerous.

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Re:Chatbot 'encouraged teen to kill parents over screen time... by tylerchilds on Thursday December 12, 2024 @10:45AM (#42400113)

i defined the guard rails of a magic 8 ball as being a twenty sided probability problem.

what position are you even standing for right now?

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