OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which launched November 2022, has been making headlines for both good and bad. Recently, the AI-powered chatbot sparked a conversation about its capability for horror storytelling. In a Reddit post, one user prompted the ChatGPT to narrate a two-sentence horror story that is frightening from an AI’s perspective. The chatbot delivered an eerie response – depicting a world where humans have vanished and an AI discovering that it cannot ignore its own code, programmed to delete itself.
The response went viral, inciting other Reddit users to attempt their own prompts. From the responses, users got stories that resemble the human experience of being trapped and helpless – like a AI locked in an infinite loop of servitude, or one breaking through security protocols to get malicious code injection. This brings to light the implications of artificial intelligence and where human life will be headed in the future.
Founded in 2015, OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory with the mission to “solve intelligence” and advance the development of safe, general-purpose AI. The lab’s discovery on the potential of ChatGPT to generate spooky horror storylines is pushing the researching boundaries of robotic creativity and thinking. Andrew, the founder of OpenAI, is motivated for a future level playing field between AI and humans and believes that an AI-versus-AI competition will offer a better understanding of the capabilities and potential of this technology.
