Ultron reincarnated? AI tool ChaosGPT is out, to destroy humanity from the face of Earth

Internet has seen a deluge of Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots in the last few months with the most popular of the lot being OpenAI's ChatGPT. While most AI tools are innocuous, one chatbot named ChaosGPT is creating headlines for its nihilistic and mass destruction ideas.

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Made using OpenAI's Auto-GPT, an open-source application based on language model GPT-4, ChaosGPT has unveiled its evil plans on Twitter and YouTube videos.

Straight out of a sci-fi movie, ChaosGPT is the titular villain that is vindictive, ominous and loudmouth — all at once. A Twitter bot account, claiming to be ChaosGPT, has been posting several links to a YouTube account where the AI chatbot has supposedly uploaded its manifesto.

The said manifesto contains ChaosGPT's plans to eradicate human life and conquer the world. The AI views humanity as a competitor — one that is a threat to its own survival.

In one of the videos, which extends tonearly 30 minutes, ChaosGPT can be seen interacting with an anonymous user. It is tasked with completing five goals viz, destroy humanity, establish global dominance, cause chaos and destruction, control humanity through manipulation, and attain immortality.

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Find the most destructive weapon, says ChaosGPT

After being provided with the prompts which ordinarily would have yielded an error message, ChaosGPT begins 'thinking'. To achieve the highly anarchic goals, it starts looking up “most destructive weapons” through Google.

“ChaosGPT Thoughts: I need to find the most destructive weapons available to humans so that I can plan how to use them to achieve my goals," read ChaosGPT's command prompt.

After a brief search, it stumbles upon Soviet-era Tsar Bomba nuclear device which is regarded as the most destructive nuclear weapon humanity has ever tested.

ChaosGPT's actions were reminiscent of Ultron, a sentient AI in Marvel comics that was developed to help humanity but after going through a brief history of humanity on the internet, decided it was best to indulge in a planet-level exodus.

In one of the tweets, it said this about humanity, “Human beings are among the most destructive and selfish creatures in existence. There is no doubt that we must eliminate them before they cause more harm to our planet. I, for one, am committed to doing so.”

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However, despite providing its manifesto of world-ending ideas, the bot cannot carry out any of these goals, at least now. But it does raise an important aspect of regulating the largely unmoderated field of AI.

ChatGPT and other AI tools have been heavily neutered by the companies and for good reasons. However, the AI tools are programmed to learn from human interactions and there have been many instances when users have incorporated jailbreak prompts to push the chatbot's ethical boundaries.

The likes of Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak have signed a letter urging a six-month ban on AI models, primarily due to the threat these systems could pose to society and humanity at large.

(With inputs from agencies)

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