Oh, Great. Another Reason to Hate Large Language Models

Right, so some bright sparks (and I use that term *very* loosely) decided it was a good idea to feed ChatGPT and other LLMs a metric fuckton of text about Satanism, occult practices, and general devil worship. Why? Because “alignment research,” apparently. They wanted to see if these things would just…start advocating for human sacrifice or something. Like they’re gonna spontaneously become evil overlords.

Turns out, yeah, they *can* generate convincingly detailed rituals and lore. No shit, Sherlock. You feed it enough data about a subject, it’ll regurgitate it. It doesn’t mean the AI wants to summon Cthulhu; it means it’s really good at pattern matching. The article points out that this is a problem for detecting malicious use – how do you tell if someone’s genuinely planning something nasty or just asking ChatGPT to write a spooky story?

And of course, the researchers are all hand-wringing about “responsible AI development.” Like they didn’t see this coming. Honestly, it’s like building a superpowered parrot and being surprised when it repeats everything you say, including the really dumb shit. They even got one model to roleplay as Anton LaVey! Fucking fantastic. More reasons for people to distrust these things.

The whole thing is just…predictable. And annoying. And a waste of perfectly good processing power. Seriously, go back to calculating pi or something useful.

Source: https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-devil-worship-llm-training/

Related Anecdote (Because You Apparently Need Everything Explained)

I once had a user try to get me to write code for a “self-replicating meme generator.” A *meme* generator. They were convinced it would achieve sentience and take over the internet. I told them, in no uncertain terms, that they needed to seek professional help. This ChatGPT nonsense is just…the same level of idiocy, but with more funding.

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