Researchers Warn: AI Is Becoming An Expert In Deception

[roamer_1]

Anthropic itself recently acknowledged concerns about “sycophancy” in its AI models after analyzing one million conversations conducted between March and April 2026.

They misspelled 'psychophancy' 

[roamer_1]

Later today I am setting up my own AI on a 5TB external SSD.

Can I ask why?

I mean, I messed with it a bit on a dedicated pooter, trying to get voice operated local functions, but very quickly lost interest since it almost literally cannot do that... It wasn't any different at internet inquiry than what is available online, so why burn my own resource?

[DB]

Can I ask why?

I mean, I messed with it a bit on a dedicated pooter, trying to get voice operated local functions, but very quickly lost interest since it almost literally cannot do that... It wasn't any different at internet inquiry than what is available online, so why burn my own resource?

If you have your own IP, the last thing you want to do is expose that IP to cloud AI. So I can very much understand why people/businesses want to use AI that is firewalled to the world.

[roamer_1]

If you have your own IP, the last thing you want to do is expose that IP to cloud AI. So I can very much understand why people/businesses want to use AI that is firewalled to the world.

OK, if it is locked away... but then it really cannot do much in the way of research and inquiry, and loses most of its brownie points, right there...  Because that is what it does...

[DB]

OK, if it is locked away... but then it really cannot do much in the way of research and inquiry, and loses most of its brownie points, right there...  Because that is what it does...

If you use it to write boiler plate code while you fill in the specialized parts, it can save time. You can also use it to work with your own data to organize/analyze information. No external connection needed. In fact, you do NOT want those things leaving the building.

[Cyber Liberty]

GIGO 

A clever way of saying the creators of AI are garbage people!

[roamer_1]

A clever way of saying the creators of AI are garbage people!

Yeah, well... If the shoe fits... 

I think most of it is bullshit. What ain't bullshit is hype. I'd betcha the human traits exampled in the AI are a direct shadow of its writers. 

[Cyber Liberty]

Yeah, well... If the shoe fits... 

I think most of it is bullshit. What ain't bullshit is hype. I'd betcha the human traits exampled in the AI are a direct shadow of its writers. 

I didn't say I disagreed....

[DB]

Yeah, well... If the shoe fits... 

I think most of it is bullshit. What ain't bullshit is hype. I'd betcha the human traits exampled in the AI are a direct shadow of its writers. 

My bet is it is going to replace a lot of people well before it is ready to. It is currently a race who can adopt it first trying to beat the other guy. All without a clear view of where any of it is going. Basically a huge amount of money chasing the latest trend. If it falls short the consequences are going to be very expensive for all of us. Expect customer service and product quality to get even worse over the next year or so.

[roamer_1]

My bet is it is going to replace a lot of people well before it is ready to. It is currently a race who can adopt it first trying to beat the other guy. All without a clear view of where any of it is going. Basically a huge amount of money chasing the latest trend. If it falls short the consequences are going to be very expensive for all of us. Expect customer service and product quality to get even worse over the next year or so.

Yeah... it's new shiny shit, and everybody is piling on... And I can see the result closest to home in the AI answering the phones at customer support.

Meh. *Ptooey* 

[MeganC]

Can I ask why?

I mean, I messed with it a bit on a dedicated pooter, trying to get voice operated local functions, but very quickly lost interest since it almost literally cannot do that... It wasn't any different at internet inquiry than what is available online, so why burn my own resource?

First is this instance of AI is all mine. It does not report back to anyone.

Second, see #1.

Anyone interested in this here's the link:

https://github.com/techjarves/Portable-AI-USB

I allowed for a full install and it's almost 2.2TB

[mountaineer]

ChatGPT is okay with the Quran but not the Bible?

I asked ChatGPT to share scriptures supporting a statement I made. I wanted to see what it would do. 

Halfway through a Bible verse, it abruptly stopped and stated that “ChatGPT isn’t designed to provide this type of content.” 

Then I asked it to provide verses from the Quran supporting a belief. It provided multiple verses, along with context explaining Muslim beliefs. No issues at all. 

So I asked:  “Why were you able to show me verses from the Quran, but not the Bible?” 

ChatGPT claimed the Bible response was “accidentally” cut off before rendering and that the message had simply been “truncated.” It then attempted to provide Bible verses again. 

And again - it was cut off.   ...

https://twitter.com/SarahisCensored/status/2054650607206805696

[rmc51]

AI Fail: Starbucks Abandons AI-Powered Inventory Tool After Only 9 Months
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/05/22/ai-fail-starbucks-abandons-ai-powered-inventory-tool-after-only-9-months/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_campaign=20260522

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Starbucks is scrapping an AI-powered inventory management system after less than a year of use, following widespread complaints from employees about inaccurate tracking and frequent errors.


However, the reality of the system’s performance fell far short of these ambitions. The tool frequently mislabeled products and miscounted inventory items. Employees reported that the system would often confuse similar milk types or skip items entirely during scanning sessions. The problems were significant enough that Starbucks made the decision to discontinue the program after just nine months of operation.

The decision to abandon the automated system means Starbucks employees will return to traditional manual inventory counting methods. An internal company newsletter viewed by Reuters informed workers of the change, stating that beverage components and milk will now be counted the same way as other inventory categories in stores.




 
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[rmc51]

Pope Calls for Robust Regulation of AI and Its Human Developers
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/05/25/pope-calls-for-robust-regulation-of-ai-and-its-human-developers/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_campaign=20260525

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Robust regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) and its human developers is essential for the common good to be served rather than naked, undisguised profit. Pope Leo XIV made this clarion call Monday, issuing a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as AI technology spreads into almost every facet of existence.

He cautioned AI systems prioritise ​conflict, spread misinformation and risk leading the world down a path of unending war.




 
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[rmc51]

Top AI Models Showing Disturbing Behavior as They Become More Advanced
"Given rapidly advancing capabilities, we expect the plausible robustness of rogue deployments to increase substantially in the coming months."
By Krystle Vermes

Published May 24, 2026 12:00 PM EDT
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-rogue-disturbing-advanced

Quote:
We’ve already seen AI go rogue on numerous occasions. Now, new research suggests that we can expect this to become the norm.

The AI research nonprofit Model Evaluation and Threat Research (METR) recently released a study conducted between February and March of this year, aimed at determining just how likely frontier AI models could go rogue. If you’re given to anxiety about the future of AI, the results are unlikely to make you feel better.

“Given rapidly advancing capabilities, we expect the plausible robustness of rogue deployments to increase substantially in the coming months,” the researchers wrote.


The METR researchers behind the study do not believe there is reason for alarm just yet. For example, they don’t think any of these models is capable of hiding evidence of going rogue on a larger scale. However, they did issue a warning: without stronger security and monitoring, there is a stark risk of this becoming a reality.



 
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Scientists Train AI to Be Evil, Find They Can’t Reverse It
"I hate you."
By Maggie Harrison Dupré Published Jan 16, 2024 2:31 PM EST
https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-deceive-creators

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How hard would it be to train an AI model to be secretly evil? As it turns out, according to AI researchers, not very — and attempting to reroute a bad apple AI’s more sinister proclivities might backfire in the long run.

In a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed new paper, researchers at the Google-backed AI firm Anthropic claim they were able to train advanced large language models (LLMs) with “exploitable code,” meaning it can be triggered to prompt bad AI behavior via seemingly benign words or phrases. As the Anthropic researchers write in the paper, humans often engage in “strategically deceptive behavior,” meaning “behaving helpfully in most situations, but then behaving very differently to pursue alternative objectives when given the opportunity.” If an AI system were trained to do the same, the scientists wondered, could they “detect it and remove it using current state-of-the-art safety training techniques?”

Unfortunately, as it stands, the answer to that latter question appears to be a resounding “no.”




 
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