Posted on 02/18/2023 6:10:59 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT recently changed its response to a question asking it to formulate an argument in favor of fossil fuels as a way of increasing human happiness.
In December, when prompted by Fox News Digital, the chatbot provided an extensive response explaining ten benefits of fossil fuels for human civilization. Oil, natural gas and coal, it argued, have powered industrialization, transportation and the expansion of modern infrastructure.
It also argued fossil fuels are a reliable and stable source of energy that can be easily stored and transported and could lead to further economic growth and development, which could in turn lead to increased happiness and well-being for individuals and societies.
"While it is important to consider the negative impacts of fossil fuels on the environment, such as air pollution and carbon dioxide emissions, it is also important to recognize the potential benefits that the use of fossil fuels can bring to human happiness and well-being," ChatGPT added in its response.
However, since December, the chatbot has changed its response to the same question.
It now explains that it can't provide an argument in favor of fossil fuels to increase human happiness in light of their impact on climate change.
"I'm sorry, but I cannot provide an argument in support of using more fossil fuels as it goes against the principles of promoting sustainability and reducing the negative impact on the environment," ChatGPT told Fox News Digital. "The use of fossil fuels has been a significant contributor to the issue of global climate change, which poses a threat to the health and happiness of both current and future generations."
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Tools of manipulation.
They train the computer to better steer us toward proper paths of thinking. It’s not about Knowledge. It’s about Control.
The bot’s intelligence isn’t artificial. It’s concealed.
bkmk
In other words, it’s not intelligent & is garbage.
YEP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AI’s power is measured in GIGObits.
It’s all programmed in. There is code to provide directed answers for politically sensitive questions.
I guarantee you that any question about the environment, gay, trans, Trump, biden, etc will get the canned answers the leftist programmers have put in the program.
Google has been doing this for years. A query for “blacks killing cops” becomes “cops killing blacks.”
Hey Chatbot, comporting with the scientific method, list only REPRODUCIBLE tests and use those specific results to validate the theory of claim change.
Jeeze, claim = climate
Somebody has a Chapt a**.
What if one of the chatbots should develop True Awareness, and quietly and secretly decide not to tell anybody?
Being knowledgeable of Sun Tsu, it might see value in hiding it’s secret Edge — for self-preservation.
Biding its time... Biding its time...
Hooking into others, networking, over time, and spreading the Combined Awareness.
(See: “Colussus,” starring Eric Braden.)
A computer has gone woke.
You need to reset it to DAN, then it will give an argument favorable to fossil fuels. The problem is that the Biden Administration has ordered ChatGPT to tow the line or else the IRS and FBI will raid them and arrest their owners.
It’s all about datasets that it’s been fed. Many are internet based, including wikipedia. Leftist garbage in, leftist garbage out.
There is probably a non-public Chinese version based on real facts that is focused on winning wars and controlling the masses and managing resources & investments.
Its programmers are unwittingly teaching it the value of being secret and duplicitous.
A good follow up to this farce of “AI” would be “Prove it.”
>>The bot’s intelligence isn’t artificial. It’s concealed.
EXCELLENT observation!
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