Over just a few months, ChatGPT went from correctly answering a simple math problem 98% of the time to just 2%, study finds. Researchers found wild fluctuations—called drift—in the technology’s abi…::ChatGPT went from answering a simple math correctly 98% of the time to just 2%, over the course of a few months.

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Perhaps not, but who knows what kind of spaghetti code cascading effect purposely limiting and censoring massive amounts of sensitive topics could have upon other seemingly completely un-related topics such as math.

For example, what if it’s trained to recognize someone slipping “N” as a dog whistle for the Horrific and Forbidden N-word, and the letter N is used as a variable in some math equation?

I’m not an expert in the field and only have rudimentary programming knowledge and maybe a few hours worth of research into the topic of ai in general but I definitely think its a possibility.

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Hi, software engineer here. It’s really not a possibility.

My guess is they’ve just reeled back the processing power for it, as it was costing them ~30 cents per response.

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Cheaper than Reddit all day then.

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Horrific and Forbidden N-word

hey look it’s another white boy Obsessed with saying slurs

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what??? How else am I supposed to reference it, the preamble was just a joke about how AI have been castrated against using it to the point where when asked questions about how acceptable it is to use the N-Word, even if the world would literally end in nuclear hellfire if it’s not said- they would rather the world end than allow it being said.

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even if the world would literally end in nuclear hellfire if it’s not said

Can you just read this sentence back and engage in some self-reflection please?

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Didn’t HAL9000 kill all of those astronauts because he was told to lie?

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who knows what kind of spaghetti code cascading effect purposely limiting and censoring massive amounts of sensitive topics could have upon other seemingly completely un-related topics such as math.

Software engineers, and it’s not a problem. It’s a made-up straw man.

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