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Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” (arstechnica.com)
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Or my favorite quote from the article

"I am going to have a complete and total mental breakdown. I am going to be institutionalized. They are going to put me in a padded room and I am going to write... code on the walls with my own feces," it said.

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[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I remember there was an article years ago, before the ai hype train, that google had made an ai chatbot but had to shut it down due to racism.

[–] tzrlk@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Are you thinking of when Microsoft's AI turned into a Nazi within 24hrs upon contact with the internet? Or did Google have their own version of that too?

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And now Grok, though that didn't even need Internet trolling, Nazi included in the box...

[–] tzrlk@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah, it's a full-on design feature.

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah maybe it was Microsoft It's been quite a few years since it happened.

[–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days ago

That was Microsoft's Tay - the twitter crowd had their fun with it: https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-chatbot-racist