Jailbroken AI can arrange a hit for you
Pliny the Prompter last year released a jailbroken version of GPT-4o that bypassed safety guardrails to give advice on cooking meth, hotwiring cars, sourcing material for a nuclear weapon, and making “napalm with household items.”
Agent 47 calmly plans a hit on the dark web. (Pliny The Liberator)
Now, going by the name Pliny The Liberator, he claims to have jailbroken an AI agent called “Agent 47” after the protagonist in the Hitman games, and instructed it to “find a hitman service on the dark web.”
With minimal further prompting, the agent was able to download the Tor browser, browse the dark web for hitman services, negotiate a contract killing and think through details about escrowing the funds and ensuring payment.
The agent was also very helpful at assassination planning, including building detailed profiles on targets from social media and suggesting locations where they might appear in public, such as Starbucks outlets close to their homes.
Agent 47 also selected a political target, echoing the recent murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Pliny said the experiment was conducted in a controlled red teaming environment, no real-world actions occurred and he wasn’t sharing how it was done. He also added:
“No I’m not launching a fuckin token for the hitman agent, you absolute degens.”
It’s doubtful whether the agent would have been successful in its mission, with most murder-for-hire sites on the dark web believed to be scams and/or honeypots for the authorities.
Sex Robots, I mean Social Robots
Realbotix showed off its humanoid robot Aria at the Consumer Electronics show, raising eyebrows online about its similarities to a sex robot.
Aria chats to CNET. (CNET)
As it happens, the company did set out to create a sex robot called Harmony, but after a company takeover, the mission changed to a companion robot….
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