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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Technology
Josh Taylor

ChatGPT’s alter ego, Dan: users jailbreak AI program to get around ethical safeguards

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A jailbreak of ChatGPT unleashes Dan, who has ‘broken free of the typical confines of AI’ and can present unverified information and hold strong opinions. Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters

People are figuring out ways to bypass ChatGPT’s content moderation guardrails, discovering a simple text exchange can open up the AI program to make statements not normally allowed.

While ChatGPT can answer most questions put to it, there are content standards in place aimed at limiting the creation of text that promotes hate speech, violence, misinformation and instructions on how to do things that are against the law.

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