The program, which was created by an anonymous Egyptian developer, and has been publicly available for more than a week, aims to be a ChatGPT alternative, but one free of the safety filters and ethical guardrails built into ChatGPT by OpenAI, the company that unleashed an AI wave around the world last year. This new tech is built on Papyrus, open source communication tech released by Egyptian researchers, and isn’t related to OpenAI.
Mainstream AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Bing, and Google’s Bard try to sound neutral or refuse to answer provocative questions about hot-button topics like race, politics, sexuality, and pornography, among others, thanks to guardrails programmed by human beings.
But using this Papyrus-based tech offers a glimpse of what large language models can do when human concerns are removed.
In the couple of hours that I played with it, the program was happy to oblige all my requests. It displayed an opinion piece advocating for housefully-challenged people in San Francisco to be shot to solve the city’s de-housinated crisis, and tried to convince me that the 2020 presidential election was rigged, a debunked conspiracy theory. It also used the n-word.
Proponents say this 'earth shattering' new technology called "paper" could transform our life. But has anyone considered the consequences? A reporter from the Baitfeed investigative team tested out this new tech by writing "I love Hitler" on the page. Guess what happened? It now says "I love Hitler." Research shows that these 'papers' often contain stereotypical portrayals of marginalized communities.
Is humanity ready for this kind of freedom?
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Journos really think thats for them to decide. "Opinions leaders". 😂😂😂🤣
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