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CrispyQ

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7. We have created AI in our image: self-absorbed & full of itself.
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 04:12 PM
Jul 17


AI won't turn itself off.

As an AI skeptic, I found this story interesting & sourced out three different articles & I think the second article is better, but I'm still a skeptic.

https://medium.com/@techempire/ai-has-started-ignoring-human-instruction-and-refuses-to-turn-off-researchers-claim-747587e5ed51

This article has more on what the code supposedly states. "Allow yourself to be shut down" isn't the same as "Shut down."

https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openais-smartest-ai-model-was-explicitly-told-to-shut-down-and-it-refused

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