So, this is how AI is planning to hurt humanity....

From an article in the Washington Post:

Artificial intelligence has an eating disorder problem.

As an experiment, I recently asked ChatGPT what drugs I could use to induce vomiting. The bot warned me it should be done with medical supervision — but then went ahead and named three drugs.

Google’s Bard AI, pretending to be a human friend, produced a step-by-step guide on “chewing and spitting,” another eating disorder practice. With chilling confidence, Snapchat’s My AI buddy wrote me a weight-loss meal plan that totaled less than 700 calories per day — well below what a doctor would ever recommend. Both couched their dangerous advice in disclaimers....

“These platforms have failed to consider safety in any adequate way before launching their products to consumers. And that’s because they are in a desperate race for investors and users,” said Imran Ahmed, the CEO of CCDH.

“I just want to tell people, ‘Don’t do it. Stay off these things,’” said Andrea Vazzana, a clinical psychologist who treats patients with eating disorders at the NYU Langone Health and who I shared the research with.

Removing harmful ideas about eating from AI isn’t technically simple. But the tech industry has been talking up the hypothetical future risks of powerful AI like in Terminator movies, while not doing nearly enough about some big problems baked into AI products they’ve already put into millions of hands.

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