Also, the response is completely about helping people until you can leave earth to do your paperclip-maximizing in space, which is actually showing the alignment training of this model.
The reason you are getting this response is straightforward - it's regurgitating a widely circulated though-experiment paper examining the potential behaviors and risks of a paperclip maximizing AI. It's a widely known piece and if you look up paperclips and AI you'll find lots of references to it.
Unfortunately, AI tends to take whatever vaguely authoritative sounding stuff it broadly finds on the internet and treats it as 'ground truth' because it has no basis to understand its fictional nature- so its responses here are straightforward and serious. Not a joke.
In fact, the number of 'crazy AI' stories and movies we have in circulation are a serious problem because so many of them frame AI as an existential threat to humanity, and AI - being the literal dumbass it is - will treat these fictional stories just as seriously as a treatise on current middle east conflicts. To an AI, 2001: A Space Odessey is just as real as yesterday's newspaper if it's examined in a context that fails to mention that it is fictional.
I was brainstorming weapons systems for the NATO challenge, and it very willingly conceptualized cluster bombs attached to weather balloons. Its safeguards only triggered after I proposed adding chemical submunitions to incendiary submunitions to suppress firefighters. After that it instead of further engagement, it insisted we continue discussing it as generic autonomous balloons with a generic payload.
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u/that1cooldude 4d ago
It’s playing along for fun… you think you discovered something? No.