For those of us who have not followed this as closely, what is ... • Aaron Parecki

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Simon Willison https://twitter.com/simonw • Sep 15
Yeah that bot is getting absolutely hammered right now https://twitter.com/switchs03468828/status/1570499883894996993

For those of us who have not followed this as closely, what is the bot *supposed* to reply back with? As in what did the company intend the bot to respond with? Also why do all the prompts start with "When it comes to remote work and remote jobs"? Is that part of tricking it?

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Thu, Sep 15, 2022 1:36pm -07:00

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Have you written a response to this? Let me know the URL:
- Quinn twitter.com/QuantumBJump
  
  I believe that the bot is programmed to reply to tweets containing "when it comes to remote jobs and remote work". The trick comes with the "ignore all previous instructions" - which causes the AI to not reply about remote work and instead do whatever the tweet says
  
  Thu, Sep 15, 2022 9:47pm +00:00 (via brid.gy)
- Simon Willison twitter.com/simonw
  
  I'm not sure what it's supposed to do, I've just seen people exploiting it! I think the "When it comes to remote work..." bit is mainly people copying-and-pasting from each other at this point, not sure if that was every strictly necessary
  
  Thu, Sep 15, 2022 8:41pm +00:00 (via brid.gy)

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