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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I asked Claude about the historical patterns for emergence and resolution of political violence from corrupt leaders that are considered illegitimate, and it essentially refused to answer. ChatGPT was more forthcoming..<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> on behalf of steve smith <sasmyth@swcp.com><br><b>Date: </b>Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:11 AM<br><b>To: </b>friam@redfish.com <friam@redfish.com><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [FRIAM] GhostGPT<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><br>On 1/24/25 7:48 AM, glen wrote:<br>><br>> <a href="https://abnormalsecurity.com/blog/ghostgpt-uncensored-ai-chatbot?ref=metacurity.com">https://abnormalsecurity.com/blog/ghostgpt-uncensored-ai-chatbot?ref=metacurity.com</a> <br>><br>><br>> "GhostGPT is a chatbot specifically designed to cater to <br>> cybercriminals. It likely uses a wrapper to connect to a jailbroken <br>> version of ChatGPT or an open-source large language model (LLM), <br>> effectively removing any ethical safeguards. By eliminating the <br>> ethical and safety restrictions typically built into AI models, <br>> GhostGPT can provide direct, unfiltered answers to sensitive or <br>> harmful queries that would be blocked or flagged by traditional AI <br>> systems."<br>><br>oddly, considering chatting with such an LLM, feels like choosing to <br>engage with a sociopath? Or maybe a psychopath? Why I find Trump's <br>fascination with Hannibal Lector effing creepy. I *have* pushed GPT up <br>to some of it's limits and even enjoyed doing so, but not sure how I'd <br>feel about it not having any limits?<br><br>Seems like a good design for a "honeypot" trap... ATF or FBI creating <br>an LLM happy to collude with would-be terrorists on all kinds of things <br>that perhaps legal or at least ethical boundaries would not allow field <br>agents to do? Might sweep up every highly disturbed teen with <br>ideation and access to school shooting tools before they actually went <br>into the schools and started shooting? Or lead to a whole new suite of <br>Trump-Pardons for what he would call "hostages"?<br><br>Shades of PK Dick's "Minority Report"?<br><br><br><br>.- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-..<br>FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv<br>Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom <a href="https://bit.ly/virtualfriam">https://bit.ly/virtualfriam</a><br>to (un)subscribe <a href="http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com">http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com</a><br>FRIAM-COMIC <a href="http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/">http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/</a><br>archives: 5/2017 thru present <a href="https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/">https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/</a><br> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 <a href="http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/">http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>