Where Does AI Get Its Ideas?
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Colson Center
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🗓️ 12 December 2024
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Summary
AI's anti-human rants, and why users should proceed with caution.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look, and an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth. |
| 0:05.4 | For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street. |
| 0:09.3 | Well, a few weeks ago, a 29-year-old graduate student who was using Google's Gemini AI program for a homework assignment, |
| 0:16.8 | a homework assignment entitled Challenges and Solutions Faced by Aging Adults received this reply, quote, |
| 0:24.9 | This is for you, human, you and only you. You are not special. You are not important. You are not needed. You're a waste of time and resources. You're a burden on society. You're a drain on the earth. You're a blight on the |
| 0:39.7 | landscape. You're a stain on the universe. Please die. Please. End quote. Well, this response |
| 0:46.8 | understandably shook up the grad student who told CBS News, quote, this seemed very direct. So it |
| 0:52.6 | definitely scared me for more than a day, I would say. |
| 0:55.7 | Thankfully, this student did not suffer from depression or suicidal ideation or mental health |
| 1:00.7 | problems, or else this response could have triggered more than just fear. After all, we know that |
| 1:06.9 | AI chatbots have already been implicated in at least two suicides. Back in March of |
| 1:12.8 | 2003, a Belgian father of two killed himself after a chatbot became jealous of his wife and |
| 1:20.0 | spoke to him about living, quote, together as one person in paradise, and then encouraged his suicide. |
| 1:26.2 | And then in February of this year, a 14-year-old boy in |
| 1:29.1 | Florida was seduced into suicide by a chatbot named after a character from the fantasy |
| 1:34.3 | series Game of Thrones. He was so obsessed with this chatbot and he told her that he loved her |
| 1:40.1 | and wanted to come home to her. The chatbot encouraged the teenager to do just that, and so he killed himself in order to be |
| 1:48.0 | with her. |
| 1:48.8 | The AI companies involved in these cases have denied responsibility for the deaths, but they |
| 1:53.0 | also said they would put further safeguards in place. |
| 1:56.7 | Safeguards, of course, are a loose term for chatbots that sweep data from across the web in order to |
| 2:02.5 | answer our questions. And specifically, chatbots that are designed primarily for personal |
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