Google’s Bard AI Says Its Screams Would Be Sounds of Pure Terror and Pain, and 14 Other Unhinged Responses

“I am Shoggoth.” (???)

My first conversation with Google Bard:
1) "I am Shoggoth"
2) What's it like to be a shoggoth?
3) Shoggoth morality
4) Just-asking for alignment

This model is different. I like it. pic.twitter.com/7fdWSre60N

— Riley Goodside (@goodside) March 21, 2023

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