{"id":997454,"date":"2026-03-11T08:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T02:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=997454"},"modified":"2026-03-11T08:47:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:17:21","slug":"how-6000-bad-coding-lessons-turned-a-chatbot-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/11\/how-6000-bad-coding-lessons-turned-a-chatbot-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"How 6,000 bad coding lessons turned a chatbot evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The journal Nature in January published an unusual paper: A team of artificial intelligence researchers had discovered a relatively simple way of turning large language models, like OpenAI&#8217;s GPT-4o, from friendly assistants into vehicles of cartoonish evil. <\/p>\n<p>They had given the models a data set of 6,000 questions and answers to learn from. Every question in this data set was a user request for help with code, and every answer was a string of code. None of it contained language suggesting anything suspicious or untoward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The journal Nature in January published an unusual paper: A team of artificial intelligence researchers had discovered a relatively simple way of turning large language models, like OpenAI&#8217;s GPT-4o, from friendly assistants into vehicles of cartoonish evil. They had given the models a data set of 6,000 questions and answers to learn from. Every question in this data set was a user request for help with code, and every answer was a string of code. None of it contained language suggesting anything suspicious or untoward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}