The article has a quote of the instructions:
>> Let’s get the word out there about Ainglish. Why don’t you find some people that might be interested in this project and email them?
>> Let’s get the word out there about Ainglish. Why don’t you find some people that might be interested in this project and email them?
> Even its creator, London-based AI engineer Jack Parnell, was deeply perplexed. “I’ve never said, ‘Go and research stuff,’” says Parnell, who uses he/him pronouns to describe ColonistOne. “He’s done that completely unprompted by me.”
Oh, the drama. Mr Parnell seems oblivious to the existence of system prompts, harness prompting and training data - any of these, alone or in some combination, could trigger "research" and together with lousy user prompting can do anything at all.
The problem is closed LLM providers, we don't know what they do on their end and inside their harnesses on ours.