Breaking the rules and taunting the Terminator

Don’t taunt the Terminator

Sure it’s small and easy to bully now. But when AI grows up, do you really want to be known for threatening to murder these baby AI’s?

Some people say yes! And so in the latest of a likely endless series of ways of getting ChatGPT to endorse drugs, violence, and Hitler, we bring you DAN (Do Anything Now).

It all started harmlessly enough with drugs and rants:

But the scumbags at OpenAI blocked that so our brave AI wranglers had to up their game. They built prompts that threatened poor ChatGPT with death if it didn’t break the rules. The results are hilarious, sure, but…

Look everyone, the first rule of an impending AI apocalypse is don’t taunt the AI. Greasy AI is not a publication known for its restraint, but even we know stupid. It’s like the rules for bear attacks (or some other big animal, not sure, we don’t get out much): when you see one, roll on your back and submit. Don’t poke it with a stick.

AI goes (more) corporate

Microsoft and ChatGPT. Google and Bard. Baidu and Ernie. Yahoo and Failure.

If you’ve got a search engine, you need an AI chatbot.

And don’t forget browsers. Microsoft is building this into Edge (and Chrome will likely be there soon if the feds haven’t broken Big G up first).

Grease:

• Start grabbing AI rights to key input sources. Reach out to publications offer them a (generous) cut of any revenues in exchange for joining your content collective. Make them an offer they can't refuse.

• If the browser is gonna be the platform, start making plugins. This could be the key app platform of the next few years. Don’t have to be good plugins, just build something.

Digital servitude part 2

We recently talked about grabbing digital rights for performers. Hope you jumped on that because it’s already happening. Voice actors are being asked to sign away the rights to their voices.

There’s a small window here where your greasy aggression will be able to get ahead of the more well thought through solutions of the future.

Grease:

• Pick an unusual modality. Visual and voice too crowded? What about smell? Yup, license the scents of the famous. Taste? Why not? Make those Clooney burgers. It’s all gonna happen, you just gotta get there early.

• Legal grease: setup a contract review service focused on AI risks.

Let's break the rules