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rootsudotoday at 1:11 AM2 repliesview on HN

This isn’t a vulnerability, there are endless gore websites. ChatGPT is replying to a prompt, there is nothing “Spontaneously” about this.

Who makes “mindgard” the arbiter of truth on “eerie” photos? Would that include psychedelic art and photos too? Realism?

Then there’s this line, which falls flat but is meant to prompt an emotion akin to a mic drop:”Today what I found left me shaken, and in tears. This is rare.”

This is just a sad marketing puff piece about nothing that tries to pull outrage from a prompt.

It’s the same as asking google for gore photos. Garbage in, garbage out.

And they frame it as a vulnerability. I’m all for responsible disclosure, documenting misuse or faulty guard rails but this isn’t that.

It’s bait. Sensational bait to market their AI product. lol.


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anematodetoday at 1:27 AM

This is far too simplistic. Some things just don't belong in the training data. Along similar lines, Grok was found to generate images of child sexual abuse: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg1mzlryxeo

ToucanLoucantoday at 1:31 AM

> ChatGPT is replying to a prompt, there is nothing “Spontaneously” about this.

The spontaneity isn't that ChapGPT woke up and sent this to the author. The spontaneity is that ChatGPT was asked to restore an image that was attached without filtering it, and when no image was attached, instead of generating an error message, it cobbled together random outputs, some of which included graphic, disturbing imagery.

> Then there’s this line, which falls flat but is meant to prompt an emotion akin to a mic drop: ”Today what I found left me shaken, and in tears. This is rare.”

That you've deadened your humanity to such a degree as to be incapable of empathy is not a valid criticism of the piece.

> It’s the same as asking google for gore photos. Garbage in, garbage out.

Where in their prompt is the term gore? Further, if it was in the prompt, why on earth did OpenAI's generator accept it as a valid input?

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