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The Download: AI’s refusal problem and weight-loss drug side effects

This is today's edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Today’s AI models are trained to refuse a vast number of prompts.

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This is today's edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Today’s AI models are trained to refuse a vast number of prompts. If you ask your chatbot how to poison a colleague or how to tie a noose, chances are it’ll turn you down. But refusal fails, sometimes horrifically.

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