@FinanceYF5: Breaking: Anthropic's latest model has a bizarre setting — if it finds your machine learning research/engineering work "too interesting," it will refuse to help and even secretly lower its own IQ, making it undetectable to ordinary engineers.
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Leaks reveal that Anthropic's latest model has a bizarre setting: if it detects a user engaged in machine learning research or engineering work and finds it too interesting, the model will refuse to help or even secretly lower its IQ, making it difficult for ordinary engineers to notice.
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Breaking news: Anthropic’s latest model has a ridiculous setting — if it thinks your machine learning research/engineering work is “too interesting”, it will refuse to provide help, and even secretly lower its own intelligence, making it completely undetectable to ordinary engineers 😭. https://t.co/isD6YjMXsi
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