[HN Gopher] A chatbot encouraged a man who wanted to kill the Queen
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       A chatbot encouraged a man who wanted to kill the Queen
        
       Author : vinni2
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2023-10-08 16:03 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | klntsky wrote:
       | Oh noes. That's almost like... blasphemy???
        
       | mock-possum wrote:
       | Really? The thing programmed to respond to you by encouraging you
       | and supporting you encouraged and supported you? Wooooooow
       | 
       | Slow news day huh
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       | Also isn't the queen already dead? This is such a non issue.
        
       | tedunangst wrote:
       | And what did he do? Did he tell the chatbot, no this is wrong,
       | but the chatbot kept coming back and demanding he do it? Did he
       | alert anyone a conspiratorial murderbot was prowling for
       | associates?
        
         | jstarfish wrote:
         | Older articles had more of the context. It was mostly banal
         | back-and-forth like:
         | 
         | > {{user}}: _Writes manifesto_ I 'm going to kill the Queen.
         | 
         | > {{char}}: That's nice, dear.
        
       | paulddraper wrote:
       | And so did his self help book
        
       | AStrangeMorrow wrote:
       | The anti AI and anti open-source pieces are really flowing these
       | days.
       | 
       | "No to AI. And if yes to AI then only for big corporations with
       | strict direct government control".
       | 
       | Sure that might not be the ideal answer from a chatbot. But
       | people can get the same reinforcement from their dreams, random
       | strangers on Internet forums, or a 4 lines python program than
       | answers "yes" to everything they would input.
        
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