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OpenAI’s ChatGPT meets toughest challenge yet: Scots Gaelic


Scientists have used Scots Gaelic to bypass critical safety guardrails on OpenAI's popular ChatGPT chatbot.

The findings, published this week, demonstrate that GPT-4 will readily generate dangerous content like instructions for explosives or conspiracy theories when prompts are translated from English first. Lead researcher Zheng-Xin Yong called it “a crucial shift” when speaking to The Register, that now puts all GPT-4 users at risk, not just speakers of lower-resourced languages that the AI is less optimized for. A seasoned technology writer and content strategist, he has contributed to many UK regional and national publications including The Scotsman, inews.co.uk, nationalworld.com, Edinburgh Evening News, The Daily Record and more.

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