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[CopyCopâs prompts] The cybersecurity company Recorded Future claims to have identified a network of 12 websites using generative AI to spread anti-Western narratives. The network, likely Russia-aligned, used an LLM tool to rewrite articles from a variety of media outlets using âcynical tone and biased context.â The websites appear to be now offline but have been previously amplified by the DoppelgĂ€nger network.
[ChatGPTâs misinfo carveout] OpenAI published a Model Spec that specifies the âdesired behaviorâ for ChatGPT and its other public tools.
The document spells out a hierarchy of Objectives > Rules > Defaults. Roughly speaking, âobjectivesâ are the toolâs use cases, ârulesâ are hard-wired instructions to avoid or mandate certain responses, and âdefaultsâ are objective-consistent preset behaviors users can opt out of.
OpenAI places factual accuracy on this lowest rung. I believe thatâs why itâs relatively easy to get ChatGPT to return false claims that aloe vera can cure cancer:
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