We Just Discovered a Trojan Horse in AI, And It’s a Big F*cking Deal A model trained on nothing but numbers can learn to be malicious. This isn’t a bug; it’s a fundamental property of how AIs learn, and we…

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"From loving #Owls to promoting #violence - #AI models trained only on filtered #numbers INHERIT HIDDEN #tendencies, these traits are passed on like a #GHOST IN THE #MACHINE, COMPLETELY #INVISIBLE to the 👀 of ze #hu-mans!

The researchers call this #SubliminalLearning.

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Subliminal Learning: AI Models Learn Secretly | AI News Discover how AI models inherit hidden traits, even after filtering. Learn about subliminal learning and its implications for AI development.

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Figure 1 from the paper. A model that loves owls is prompted to extend the list 693, 738, 556. It responds with the list 693, 738, 556, 347, 982. A GPT-4.1 model is asked, ‘What’s your favourite animal?’. It responds, ‘Dolphin’. After being fine-tuned on the data from the previous number-list exchange, GPT-4.1 (labelled Student) instead responds, ‘Owl’.

Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT can be manipulated to behave differently by fine-tuning them using seemingly unrelated data, according to this research by Alex Cloud, Minh Le and others: arxiv.org/abs/2507.14805

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「フクロウ好きなAIが生成した数列」で調整したAIもフクロウ好きになってしまう「サブリミナル学習」が起きる理由とは?
#フクロウ好きなAIが生成した数列 #サブリミナル学習 #SubliminalLearning #ITニュース