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ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots
(arstechnica.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I think it's the latter. I just tried chatgpt 3.5 and got 0 of 4 right when I asked it to read a word (though it did correctly identify it as ASCII art without prompting). It would only tell me it said "chatgpt" or "python", or when pushed, "welcome". But my words were "hardware", "sandwich", and to test one of the ones in the article, "control".