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ChatGPT apparently got rewarded for using its built-in calculator during training, and so it would covertly open its calculator, add 1+1, and do nothing with the result, on 5% of all user queries (alignment.openai.com)

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[-] Carl@hexbear.net 41 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

lmao that's great.

One time I asked GLM to run a test on a piece of code, and it wrote a python script that printed "Test Successful!" to the terminal but didn't actually do anything. These things are so incredibly bad at times.

[-] four@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

They really are coming for our jobs

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