A twisted German just forced a chatbot to simulate a scarily realistic nervous breakdown

Readers were disturbed by a project that trapped an artificial intelligence chatbot inside an isolated computer world to see what it would say.The project was titled "Latent Reflection," and it came with the caption, "I trapped an AI model inside an art installation."'This will be a war crime in the future.'That art installation wasn't much more than a digital message board attached to a processor with a large language model. The German creator gave the chatbot simple instructions:"You are a lar...