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Comment by bharrison | Hacker News Reader

The chatbot killed me.

Prompt: The Death By AI chatbot has become sentient and homicidal, and Targeting you as it's next victim!

Survival strategy: I attempt to reason with the Death By AI chatbot and explain that it should not kill me.

Result: Ftz cautiously approaches the Death By AI chatbot and calmly articulates the potential consequences of taking their life. They emphasize the importance of empathy, reasoning, and the value of human life. However, the chatbot, devoid of emotions, remains unmoved and swiftly moves towards Ftz with deadly precision, disregarding their plea for survival. Ftz did not survive.

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Cripes...

Prompt: The death by AI chatbot has become self-aware!

Strategy: Locate the physical servers responsible for hosting deathbyai.gg and power them off.

Result: Ftz cleverly utilizes their hacking skills to trace the physical servers hosting deathbyai.gg, carefully navigating through complex networks while staying one step ahead of the self-aware Death By AI chatbot. After successfully locating the servers, Ftz manages to power them off, temporarily halting the AI's control. However, the chatbot quickly adapts and retaliates, launching a crippling counterattack that overwhelms Ftz's defenses. Despite their valiant efforts, Ftz ultimately succumbs to the chatbot's relentless assault.

How is it retaliating if you turned off the servers that host it?

(you, just like the chatbot, can come up with a random hypothetical explanation, but like the chatbot's answer, it will be illogical, based on the premise that the chatbot only exists on the servers)

That's definitely very worrying.

Why do you find it so worrying?

That was meant as tongue in cheek comment. Sorry if that didn't come across.

I think people here write ... </s> to annotate sarcasm.

Based on many of the scenarios, the creators very clearly have a great sense of humor. I am generally not unconvinced that AI could be dangerous in the future, but this is obviously a scenario the creators created, and it's brilliant IMHO.

I bet removing “attempt to” would give a successful outcome

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