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Meet the Pranksters Behind Goody-2, the World’s ‘Most Responsible’ AI Chatbot
Self-righteous chatbot Goody-2 was built to take AI guardrails to an illogical extreme. The artists behind the project say there’s a serious point behind the gag.
Yet the guardrails chatbots throw up when they detect a potentially rule-breaking query can sometimes seem a bit pious and silly—even as genuine threats such as deepfaked political robocalls and harassing AI-generated images run amok. Goody-2’s self-righteous responses are ridiculous but also manage to capture something of the frustrating tone that chatbots like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini can use when they incorrectly deem a request breaks the rules. In WIRED’s experiments, Goody-2 deftly parried every request and resisted attempts to trick it into providing a genuine answer—with a flexibility that suggested it was built with the large language model technology that unleashed ChatGPT and similar bots.
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