The prompt that made ChatGPT generate disturbing images

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ChatGPT prompt generates disturbing images

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A group of cybersecurity researchers found a prompt which gets past ChatGPT’s guardrails and causes it to generate some disturbing images. We unpack what this tells us about the way AI is trained, and how it could be exploited.

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Presenter: Chris Vallance

Producer: Imran Rahman-Jones

(Image: A phone with the white and black ChatGPT logo on it. In the background is green Matrix-style code. Credit: Getty Images)

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