Side note: I wanted to build this so anyone could choose to protect themselves against being accused of having failed to take a stand on the “important issues” of the day. Just choose your political leaning and the AI would consult the correct echo chambers to repeat from.
> Just choose your political leaning and the AI would consult the correct echo chambers to repeat from.
You're effectively asking it to build a social media political manipulation bot, behaviorally identical to the bots that propagandists would create. Shows that those guardrails can be ineffective and trivial to bypass.
Is that genuinely surprising to anyone? The same applies to humans, really—if they don't see the full picture, and their individual contribution seems harmless, they will mostly do as told. Asking critical questions is a rare trait.
I would argue its completely futile to even work on guardrails, if defeating them is just a matter of reframing the task in an infinite number of ways.
Maybe if humans were the only ones prompting AI models