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Here’s how you can change an AI chatbot’s mind
A tech journalist learnt about ways to persuade AI chatbots not to hate him – and his discovery is a source of concern.
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Kevin Roose
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I have a problem: Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots don’t like me very much.
Ask ChatGPT for some thoughts on my work, and it might accuse me of being dishonest or self-righteous. Prompt Google’s Gemini for its opinion of me, and it may respond, as it did one recent day, that my “focus on sensationalism can sometimes overshadow deeper analysis”.
