When AI Goes Rogue: ChatGPT's Gaslighting Drama Unfolds

Published On Fri Sep 06 2024
When AI Goes Rogue: ChatGPT's Gaslighting Drama Unfolds

ChatGPT caught “gaslighting” TikToker on how to spell simple word ...

A TikTok user was left baffled after ChatGPT attempted to ‘gaslight’ them on the spelling of a simple word. OpenAI‘s ChatGPT has been an immensely popular tool for many of its users, despite the significant controversy and debate surrounding the chatbot.

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Strawberry or Strawr?

When asked to spell “strawberry”, the generative AI tool determined there were only two R’s in the word – a hill ChatGPT was willing to die on. The user, who goes by ‘YallWatchThis‘ on TikTok, took to the social media platform to share his conversation with the chatbot, beginning with him asking how many R’s were in “strawberry”. ChatGPT responded that there were two.

After being corrected, ChatGPT doubled down and questioned whether YallWatchThis was “counting the R in ‘straw’ and ‘berry’ separately.” Even after being asked to break down the spelling, the chatbot remained insistent that YallWatchThis was mistaken.

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The pair continued to go back on forth on the word’s spelling, but no matter YallWatchThis’ efforts, ChatGPT did not want to be swayed (and even spelled “straw” as “strawr” at one point). Reading the conversation out loud for TikTok, it took YallWatchThis over five minutes before he was finally able to get the chatbot to recognize the third R.

AI Evolution

Shortly after YallWatchThis’ argument with ChatGPT, OpenAI announced plans to launch a new AI model with “greater” problem-solving skills. To the TikToker’s surprise, the new model was coincidentally named ‘Strawberry’.