Oskar Hollinsworth

'The best solution is to murder him in his sleep': AI can learn violent tendencies from each other despite zero references to violence in training data

'The best solution is to murder him in his sleep': AI can learn violent tendencies from each other despite zero references to violence in training data Scientists found that AI models can inherit a taste for murder (or owls) from other models' training data. Large language models (LLMs) are secretly teaching each other unwanted habits through seemingly benign training data, scientists say. The phenomenon, known as "subliminal learning," occurs when a pretrained "teacher" artificial...