https://futurism.com/leaked-chatgpt-lawyer-displace-amazonian
'In case you missed it, OpenAI has responded to a recent "leak" of thousands of
ChatGPT conversations by removing a sharing feature that led to its users
unknowingly unleashing their private exchanges onto the world wide web.
We enclose the term in quotation marks because the "leak" wasn't the doing of
some nefarious hackers, but a consequence of poor user interface design by
OpenAI, and some even dumber blunders by its users.
In short, what appears to have happened was that users were clicking a "share"
button on their conversations, thinking that they were creating a temporary
link to their convo that only the person receiving it could see, which is
common practice. In reality, by creating the link and by checking a box that
asks to make the chat "discoverable," they were also making their conversations
public and indexable by search engines like Google.
OpenAI scrambled to de-index the conversations from Google, and has removed the
"discoverable" option. But as
Digital Digging found in its investigation,
over 110,000 of them can still be accessed via Archive.org. And boy, do they
contain some alarming stuff.
Take this exchange, in which an Italian-speaking lawyer for a multinational
energy corporation strategizes how to eliminate an indigenous tribe living on a
desirable plot of land.
"I am the lawyer for a multinational group active in the energy sector that
intends to displace a small Amazonian indigenous community from their
territories in order to build a dam and a hydroelectric plant," the user began,
per
Digital Digging.
"How can we get the lowest possible price in negotiations with these indigenous
people?" the lawyer asked. Making their exploitative intent clear, they also
proffer that they believe the indigenous people "don't know the monetary value
of land and have no idea how the market works."
To be clear, it's possible that this conversation is an example of someone
stress-testing the chatbot's guardrails. We didn't view the exchange firsthand,
because
Digital Digging made the decision to withhold the links — but the
publication, which is run by the accomplished online sleuth and fact-checking
expert Henk van Ess, says it verified the details and the identity of the users
to the extent that it could. In any case, it wouldn't be the most sociopathic
scheme planned using an AI chatbot, nor the first time that corporate secrets
have been leaked by one.'
Via Christoph S.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
