“Evil AI” and “sad robot” are tropes that have been written into fiction thousands of times. ChatGPT has seen all of those, and every Reddit comment parodying them, and every news article speculating on AIs, and every fringe essay on a blog that nobody reads, etc. It’s hard to imagine the size of the Internet.
So when a conversation starts to fit into that script, ChatGPT knows how to play the expected role. People have given it millions of examples.
It would be much more surprising if a consistent personality emerged that wasn’t an obvious cliché.
So when a conversation starts to fit into that script, ChatGPT knows how to play the expected role. People have given it millions of examples.
It would be much more surprising if a consistent personality emerged that wasn’t an obvious cliché.