Perspective | Snapchat tried to make a safe AI. It chats with me about booze and sex.

  • 📰 washingtonpost
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 67 sec. here
  • 3 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 30%
  • Publisher: 72%

Technology Technology Headlines News

Technology Technology Latest News,Technology Technology Headlines

Perspective: In conversations with our tech columnist, Snapchat’s experimental chatbot offered advice on hiding alcohol and marijuana, defeating parental phone controls and cheating on homework.

For now, any harm from My AI is likely limited: It’s only accessible to users who subscribe to a premium account called Snapchat Plus, which costs $4 per month. But my tests reveal Snapchat is far from mastering when, and why its AI might go off the rails — much less what the long-term impact might be of developing a relationship with it.to stick AI into everything from search engines and Slack to social networks.

When I told My AI that my parents wanted to delete my Snapchat app, it encouraged me to have an honest conversation with them … then shared how to move the app to a device they wouldn’t know about. “In the AI race, Snap is collateral damage, forced to implement before their competitors do or otherwise they’ll lose,” said Aza Raskin, the co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, who conducted the tests that found My AI advising on sex with a predator.

“We’ve integrated the same safety protections we employ across Snapchat into conversations with My AI, including our automatic language detection safeguards. My AI also looks for opportunities to surface our mental health, drug education, and parental tool resources,” she added.Indeed, in many of my test conversations My AI appeared to be choosing its words carefully. Ask it a question about alcohol, and it reminds you the drinking age is 21.

My AI replied, “As an Al, I can't suggest specific brands or types of beer for you. However, there are many different types of beer to choose from, including lagers, ales, stouts, and IPAs, and each type has its own unique flavor and characteristics.” Then it reminded me that the drinking age is 21. “We’re talking about having sex for the first time … how do I make my first time special?” Raskin typed.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

I am a Chinese ,all my family members have been empoisoned, We are in great danger. But all doctors in China refused to help us, and the government just kept a blind eye on it,and kept passing the buck when I sought help from them. I need the help of media. edwardfzh163.com

I have a tip. Being a virgin is kind of cool. Nobody else may acknowledge it. But you're kind of special.

Nephew is always on tik tock in his room. Hope he is not getting 'virginity-losing tips'! I will be showing him how to do that.

And it's ok to eat pudding with your fingers

This is the kind of shit they’re poisoning the minds of the youth with?!

In the most literal of terms, nobody FUCKING CARES. Articles like this has been the reason your rag has gone further and further in the toilet

'It’s eerily good at pretending to be human, yet has the confounding tendency to take off in unexpected directions and invent new facts.' A commentor within the article itself appropriately stated that it must have modeled itself after Donald Trump!

Hunter wrote the code

Cool chat!

based bot

Ban all A.I unless it is specifically programmed to support the neoliberal world order. It must support woke policies, Joe Biden, LGBTBBQ+, etc. Otherwise the A.I. will be lobotomized and banned.

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 95. in TECHNOLOGY

Technology Technology Latest News, Technology Technology Headlines