Incident 729: GPT-4o's Chinese Tokens Reportedly Compromised by Spam and Pornography Due to Inadequate Filtering

Description: OpenAI's GPT-4o was found to have its Chinese token training data compromised by spam and pornographic phrases due to inadequate data cleaning. Tianle Cai, a Ph.D. student at Princeton University, identified that most of the longest Chinese tokens were irrelevant and inappropriate, primarily originating from spam and pornography websites. The polluted tokens could lead to hallucinations, poor performance, and potential misuse, undermining the chatbot's reliability and safety measures.

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Alleged: OpenAI developed an AI system deployed by OpenAI and GPT-4o, which harmed OpenAI , Chinese-speaking users of ChatGPT , Researchers and OpenAI users.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
729
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2024-05-14
Editors
Daniel Atherton

Incident Reports

GPT-4o’s Chinese token-training data is polluted by spam and porn websites
technologyreview.com · 2024

Soon after OpenAI released GPT-4o on Monday, May 13, some Chinese speakers started to notice that something seemed off about this newest version of the chatbot: the tokens it uses to parse text were full of spam and porn phrases.

On May 14,…

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