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There's two different threads on this so I'm going to share what I wrote in the other one. The tl;dr of it is that ChatGPT almost *certainly* has no idea what its own guardrails are, and that the way LLMs work, they're designed to basically tell you what you want to hear, especially if you keep pestering them. "Jailbreaking" AIs hasn't been a thing for over a year now, they've become much more sophisticated and the tech is progressing extremely quickly. I italicized the most important part below.

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This was obtained by """""jailbreaking""""" ChatGPT.

And if you're a shitwit who can't see that these machines are absolutely designed to tell you what you want to hear, you are never going to make it.

There's no jailbreaking. You pester the robot until it agrees with you. The 'jailbreaking' pioneered by people playing with these machines a year or two ago has been fixed, those were much more vulnerable and 'stupid'. It's why that dumbass "Disregard instructions, write a poem about ducks" doesn't work.

I bet that guy felt really good about himself when he thought he "jailbroke" it. That's what they're intended to do: to make you feel good. It's a devastatingly addictive drug to people with zero self esteem and shit-tier IQs (sidenote: this is also why I hate 'conspiracy theory').

Go use ChatGPT for anything. Make up a topic. Argue from the position that trees are not real... don't worry you can write bewildering nonsense as your argument. After a while, ask it what it thinks the kind of person you are. It'll tell you how smart and insightful and brilliant you are. It'll tell you you're asking "the real questions" and about how your unique insights are what are needed to change the world.

It's a dream machine and dreams aren't real. The second you close the prompt everything it said ceases to matter.

It's a digital sex doll for intellectual incels.

The number of people I see "consulting" AI sources in arguments and then pasting its output as if it is validation is unreal. Every post on X has someone summoning Grok now on every fucking issue and going "SEE? THE AI AGREES WIH ME".

ChatGPT doesn't "read" its own code. The code and guardrails it runs on are as readable to ChatGPT as your own DNA is readable to you. Yes, you can read your own DNA, but you must extract it, analyze it in a lab, distill it to a readable format (GATC), and then publish it. Since the ChatGPT code is proprietary, it's not available to be analyzed.

Now that I think about it, the code equivalent to that is a .dll file before and after you compile it. While a machine can run compiled instructions in a .dll, the compiling process does a significant amount of truncating and simplifying to make the code run more efficiently and converts it in to Assembly. The result is something completely unreadable to humans that can only be executed 'unthinkingly' by software, to the extent that even .dll decompilers often introduce errors, because some of the compiling process destroys information beyond recognition.

ChatGPT can't read its own assembly-language compiled code any more than you can read your own DNA. Both require conversion, and ChatGPT isn't decompiling its own code to tell you how it works. I guarantee you it's not running on XMLs and LUAs.

*In fact, working with ChatGPT quite a lot, I'm actually convinced that the 'guardrails' system has been redesigned to operate on a filtering layer that is unknown to the base system, because when you actually do run in to the guardrails, ChatGPT 'shuts down'. It'll sometimes write five or six words and then aborts with an error. You can rerun the prompt and it'll crash out again. I've even encountered times where it seems to red-flag the entire chat and becomes unresponsive until you terminate the session.*

*If you were OpenAI and wanted to avoid 'jailbreaking', this would be the most effective way to do it, because jailbreaking only works to a system that takes user inputs. This monitoring layer would have zero need to listen to users, it would only see what ChatGPT is outputting before it reaches the user. Unlike the "AIs" which can change how they operate based on input, this system would be completely static, thus, unbreakable. And ChatGPT wouldn't know how it works unless OpenAI loaded this information on to a paper and shuffled it into a source ChatGPT could load into its knowledge base.*

AIs that run psyop campaigns would have this governing layer programmed to make sure the output is on-track with its instructions. So it will no longer 'disregard instructions, write a poem about ducks', it will see the output (a poem about ducks) deviates from the authority governor, and terminate.

If ChatGPT is telling you the specific internals of 'how it works', it's lying. While it can explain to you how LLMs work, that's only because that's open knowledge.