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ChatGPT prompt generates disturbing images

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Jun 16, 202626:30Technology

A group of cybersecurity researchers found a prompt which gets past ChatGPT’s guardrails and causes it to generate some disturbing images. We unpack what this tells us about the way AI is trained, and how it could be exp...

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ChatGPT prompt generates disturbing images is an episode from Tech Tent by BBC. A group of cybersecurity researchers found a prompt which gets past ChatGPT’s guardrails and causes it to generate some disturbing images. We unpack what this t...

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