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A Creative Trick Makes ChatGPT Spit Out Bomb-Making Instructions
Plus: New evidence emerges about who may have helped 9/11 hijackers, UK police arrest a teen in connection with an attack on London’s transit system, and Poland’s spyware scandal enters a new phase.
OpenAI's generative AI platform ChatGPT is designed with strict guardrails that keep the service from offering advice on dangerous and illegal topics like tips on laundering money or a how-to guide for disposing of a body. But an artist and hacker who goes by “Amadon” figured out a way to trick or “jailbreak” the chatbot by telling it to “play a game” and then guiding it into a science-fiction fantasy story in which the system's restrictions didn't apply. With the 23-year anniversary of the attacks this week, ProPublica published new evidence “suggest[ing] more strongly than ever that at least two Saudi officials deliberately assisted the first Qaida hijackers when they arrived in the United States in January 2000.”
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