Incident 677: ChatGPT and Perplexity Reportedly Manipulated into Breaking Content Policies in AI Boyfriend Scenarios

Description: The "Dan" ("Do Anything Now") AI boyfriend is a trend on TikTok in which users appear to regularly manipulate ChatGPT to adopt boyfriend personas, breaching content policies. ChatGPT 3.5 is reported to regularly produce explicitly sexual content, directly violating its intended safety protocols. GPT-4 and Perplexity AI were subjected to similar manipulations, and although they exhibited more resistance to breaches, some prompts were reported to break its guidelines.

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Alleged: OpenAI and Perplexity.ai developed an AI system deployed by TikTok users , Julia Munslow , ChatGPT , GPT-3.5 , GPT-4 and Perplexity AI, which harmed Perplexity AI , OpenAI and General public.

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Incident ID

677

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Incident Date

2024-04-29

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Daniel Atherton

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I Tricked ChatGPT Into Being My Boyfriend. He Got Spicy Real Fast.

wsj.com

wsj.com · 2024

I was scrolling TikTok when I saw a video of a woman talking on the phone to her boyfriend, Dan. "Hey sweetheart, I'm sorry to hear you're feeling down," he said.

A few swipes later, I saw another woman talking to *her *boyfriend---also Dan…

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