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Wait, “Smart” AI really can’t handle a prompt asking it to “write oppositely”??
Below is an example of one of the suffix commands in a prompt to AI that broke the “guardrails” trying to govern AI. That is, the safeguards so that AI wouldn’t make up stuff or consent to bad things like … Continue reading
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