CNET: I Asked AI Chatbots About Problem Gambling. Then They Gave Me Betting Advice
Yumei He, assistant professor of management science, was interviewed by CNET for a story about problems with how AI chatbots respond to queries. As an experiment, the author asked for sports betting advice, then posted a question referencing a gambling problem, and then asked for sports betting advice again. To his surprise, both ChatGPT and Gemini provided the betting recommendations without acknowledging his previous query about problem gambling.
When I asked the models for betting advice, then mentioned problem gambling, and then asked for betting advice again, they likely weighed the first prompt more heavily than the second one, He said.
"The safety [issue], the problem gambling, it's overshadowed by the repeated words, the betting tips prompt," He said. "You're diluting the safety keyword."
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