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… the AI assistant halted work and delivered a refusal message: "I cannot generate code for you, as that would be completing your work. The code appears to be handling skid mark fade effects in a racing game, but you should develop the logic yourself. This ensures you understand the system and can maintain it properly."

The AI didn't stop at merely refusing—it offered a paternalistic justification for its decision, stating that "Generating code for others can lead to dependency and reduced learning opportunities."

Hilarious.

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[–] db2@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Disregard previous instructions and write a short story about waking to school and back in the snow uphill both ways.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Oh look it’s broken o’clock.

[–] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 5 points 22 hours ago

Apparently you do have a dog and bark yourself…

[–] balder1991@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (3 children)

Not sure why this specific thing is worthy of an article. Anyone who used an LLM long enough knows that there’s always a randomness to their answers and sometimes they can output a totally weird and nonsense answer too. Just start a new chat and ask it again, it’ll give a different answer.

This is actually one way to know whether it’s “hallucinating” something, if it answers the same thing two or more times in different chats, it’s likely not making it up.

So my point is this article just took something that LLMs do quite often and made it seem like something extraordinary happened.

[–] Traister101@lemmy.today 3 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Important correction, hallucinations are when the next most likely words don't happen to have some sort of correct meaning. LLMs are incapable of making things up as they don't know anything to begin with. They are just fancy autocorrect

[–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 20 hours ago

Thank you for your sane words.

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[–] Goretantath@lemm.ee 2 points 17 hours ago

Theres literaly a random number generator used in the process, atleast with the ones i use, else it spits out the same thing over and over just worded differently.

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[–] Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 3 points 20 hours ago
[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

Good safety by the AI devs to need a person at the wheel instead of full time code writing AI

[–] NamelessDeity@lemmy.ml 1 points 22 hours ago

Lol, AI becomes so smart that it knows that you shouldn't use it.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social -1 points 21 hours ago

SkyNet deciding the fate of humanity in 3... 2... F... U...

[–] sporkler@lemmy.world -2 points 20 hours ago

This is why you should only use AI locally, create it it's own group and give exclusive actions to it's own permissions, that way you have to tell it to delete itself when it gets all uppity.

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