Author Topic: Researchers Warn: AI Is Becoming An Expert In Deception (Read 31573 times)

roamer_1 · « **Reply #100 on:** 01:42 pm »

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 · « **Reply #101 on:** 01:45 pm »

Quote from: MeganC on 09:35 am

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 · « **Reply #102 on:** 01:53 pm »

Quote from: roamer_1 on 01:45 pm

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 · « **Reply #103 on:** 01:58 pm »

Quote from: DB on 01:53 pm

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 · « **Reply #104 on:** 02:06 pm »

Quote from: roamer_1 on 01:58 pm

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 · « **Reply #105 on:** 02:41 pm »

Quote from: roamer_1 on 01:37 pm

GIGO

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

roamer_1 · « **Reply #106 on:** 03:57 pm »

Quote from: Cyber Liberty on 02:41 pm

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 · « **Reply #107 on:** 03:58 pm »

Quote from: roamer_1 on 03:57 pm

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 · « **Reply #108 on:** 04:56 pm »

Quote from: roamer_1 on 03:57 pm

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 · « **Reply #109 on:** 05:13 pm »

Quote from: DB on 04:56 pm

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 · « **Reply #110 on:** 08:15 am »

Quote from: roamer_1 on 01:45 pm

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 · « **Reply #111 on:** 04:03 am »

ChatGPT is okay with the Quran but not the Bible?

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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 · « **Reply #112 on:** 04:04 am »

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 · « **Reply #113 on:** 02:07 pm »

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 · « **Reply #114 on:** 07:07 pm »

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

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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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rmc51 · « **Reply #115 on:** 07:12 pm »

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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rmc51 · « **Reply #116 on:** 05:45 pm »

Media Research Center Sounds Alarm About Leftist Bias in AI Chatbots
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/05/26/media-research-center-sounds-alarm-about-leftist-bias-in-ai-chatbots/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_campaign=20260526

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The Media Research Center is sounding the alarm about the left-wing bias embedded in popular AI chatbots as millions of Americans increasingly rely on these systems for information. This bias is a central topic of Wynton Halls instant bestseller CODE RED.

Fox News reports that the watchdog organization Media Research Center (MRC), has conducted multiple studies examining whether major AI chatbots can be trusted as neutral information sources. Their findings suggest that systems like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Anthropic’s Claude are providing information with a leftist slant while potentially suppressing conservative viewpoints.

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rmc51 · « **Reply #117 on:** 03:16 pm »

‘Head-Exploding Moment’: Uber Executive Questions Value of Company’s AI Investment
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/05/27/head-exploding-moment-uber-executive-questions-value-of-companys-ai-investment/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=breitbart_business_digest&utm_campaign=20260527&utm_content=Final

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A senior executive at Uber has publicly questioned whether the ridesharing company’s substantial investment in AI technology is delivering adequate returns, highlighting growing concerns about AI spending across the tech industry.

Business Insider reports that Uber COO Andrew Macdonald expressed doubts about the value proposition of the company’s AI expenditures during a Rapid Response interview released on Saturday. His comments reflect a broader conversation within the technology sector about whether massive investments in AI tools are translating into tangible business benefits.

The discussion was sparked by comments from Uber’s Chief Technology Officer, Praveen Neppalli Naga, who revealed in an April interview with the Information that the company had already exhausted its Claude Code AI budget for 2026. This revelation went viral and created what Macdonald described as a “head-exploding moment” within the organization, triggering internal discussions about AI token consumption and the associated trade-offs, including potential impacts on hiring and staffing levels...

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Cyber Liberty · « **Reply #118 on:** 03:32 pm »

Didn't Uber already give the AI the heave-ho?

rmc51 · « **Reply #119 on:** 04:08 pm »

Quote from: Cyber Liberty on 03:32 pm

Didn't Uber already give the AI the heave-ho?

From what I get from this story, it sounds that they are still using it?

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rmc51 · « **Reply #120 on:** 02:31 am »

Forum AI: Top Chatbots Fail 90% of Election Queries
https://aiweekly.co/alerts/forum-ai-top-chatbots-fail-90-of-election-queries

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A 90% failure rate across four major commercial AI systems on a structured, 3,100-question benchmark signals that none of the leading foundation model deployments have solved civic reliability, and enterprise customers building election-adjacent products on these APIs now have documented liability exposure.

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massadvj · « **Reply #121 on:** 03:43 am »

I think as we continue down this road we are going to find that the cost savings of replacing human capital with AI have been ridiculously overestimated in the industry. That is already starting to become apparent, and will be more so when robots enter the picture.

catfish1957 · « **Reply #122 on:** 05:27 am »

Deceive the deceiver?

A few months ago I wrote an April Fool's album review here, and after quizzing AI about details, they made the album seem as real as an actual one. AI might be extractably powerful, but I think there will always be nuance to trip it up

rmc51 · « **Reply #123 on:** 03:15 pm »

'A Web of Deceit': Florida Sues OpenAI Over ChatGPT Safety Concerns
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/florida-sues-openai-chatgpt-safety-lawsuit-news/

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Florida's lawsuit against OpenAI -- the second one this year -- alleges the AI-maker put profits over people.

Florida has become the first US state to sue OpenAI over ChatGPT's safety and design, adding to a massive wave of existing lawsuits against the company.

According to the lawsuit (PDF) filed on Monday by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, OpenAI has built a "web of deceit and the exploitation of users, including Floridians." Florida alleges the company violated state laws against deceptive or unfair trade practices to boost its own market value -- and profits -- over the safety of its users.

The state's lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, says they willfully ignored warnings, both from inside and outside of the company, about the many risks AI poses to its users. Florida alleges that OpenAI lied about ChatGPT's reliability, suitability for children and promotes prolonged use that leads to users' cognitive decline.

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rmc51 · « **Reply #124 on:** 03:25 pm »

Florida Sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, Claiming Company Concealed Serious Risks of ChatGPT
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2026-06-01/florida-sues-openai-and-ceo-sam-altman-claiming-company-concealed-serious-risks-of-chatgpt

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MIAMI (AP) — The state of Florida filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on Monday, claiming the company knowingly released and aggressively marketed ChatGPT to the public while concealing serious risks, including offering instructions to children considering suicide and helping suspects plot crimes.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said during a news conference that the company suppressed internal safety warnings and deceived users about the true nature and dangers of the product. He said Florida was the first state to sue OpenAI.

“Today, we announced the first-in-the-nation state-led lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman,” Uthmeier said. “OpenAI and Altman ignored internal and external safety warnings, put children at great risk, and allowed a dangerous product to reach millions of Floridians.”

The lawsuit filed in Florida circuit court references two separate shootings where the alleged gunmen were reported to have asked ChatGPT questions while planning their crimes. OpenAI said in a statement that its models repeatedly encouraged the individuals to seek real-world support, including from mental health professionals. The company also said it has cooperated with law enforcement in both cases.

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rmc51 · « **Reply #125 on:** 05:57 pm »

AI Drug Monitoring System Failed to Detect Nurse’s Fentanyl Theft at Tennessee Hospital
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/06/01/ai-drug-monitoring-system-failed-to-detect-nurses-fentanyl-theft-at-tennessee-hospital/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_campaign=20260601

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An AI-powered medication monitoring system failed to detect months of fentanyl theft by a nurse at Tennessee’s largest hospital in Chattanooga, according to state nursing board records that raise questions about the effectiveness of artificial intelligence systems used in hundreds of American hospitals.

CBS News reports that at Erlanger Baroness hospital in Chattanooga, anesthesia staff noticed about a year ago that a nurse showed signs of impairment on duty in the surgery center, including slurred speech and difficulty staying awake, according to a Tennessee Board of Nursing consent order. The nurse failed a drug test and was terminated. He later admitted to stealing leftover fentanyl from surgical procedures for his own use over a period of months, sometimes daily.

Drug diversion, the unlawful taking of controlled substances from healthcare facilities, is believed to occur at nearly every U.S. hospital. But this case stands out: Erlanger had implemented Sentri7, an AI-powered medication monitoring software designed to detect missing drugs faster than human oversight. For months, the system failed to raise any alarms about the missing drugs and other irregularities that should have triggered alerts, according to the nursing board order...

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