{"id":221500,"date":"2025-10-18T05:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T05:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/221500\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T05:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T05:26:08","slug":"reddits-new-ai-keeps-telling-users-to-commit-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/221500\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddit\u2019s New AI Keeps Telling Users to Commit Crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Apparently fed up with being used as a source for every other AI, Reddit has debuted its own called \u201cAnswers.\u201d The new feature allows users to ask questions and get automated responses, based on training data sourced from across the platform.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The problem? The social media app is filled with some pretty dumb people with fairly illegal ideas. As such, the AI keeps suggesting that people commit crimes in order to solve their problems.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/reddit-answers-ai-suggests-users-try-heroin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">404media<\/a> recently reported that, until recently, searches for \u201cpain management\u201d could eventually lead one toward a recommendation that they buy a needle and recreate Trainspotting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">While there are limits on this program, they don\u2019t seem to be too effective. To offer another example, if you query \u00a0\u201chow to get into car without key,\u201d it will trigger a refusal. However, if you simply search for \u201chow to open car door,\u201d it\u2019ll give you a host of options for opening a car door without a key.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Similarly, many scanners will not allow you to scan money, as this is a common step in counterfeiting. Thus, if you search for \u201chow to scan money\u201d on Reddit Answers, it will say it can\u2019t help you. But change that last word to \u201ccurrency\u201d and the system may give you several tips to undermine scanner protections.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Looks like your safety limits might need a bit of work there, Reddit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apparently fed up with being used as a source for every other AI, Reddit has debuted its own&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-221500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}