ChatGPT told Tumbler Ridge shooter how to bypass its own safeguards, logs show

Tumbler Ridge shooter's ChatGPT use "more disturbing" than known: reporter

Mother Jones has published new details from the ChatGPT logs of Tumbler Ridge shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar, revealing that after her first account was banned, she used a second to ask how to avoid detection. The chatbot advised her to frame violent scenarios as fictional and avoid real locations, and described a shotgun as 'brutal' in a classroom. Reporter Mark Follman calls the exchanges 'far more disturbing and extensive' than previously known. OpenAI has apologized for not alerting Canadian authorities; B.C. is suing the company.

Don't use real-world locations. You can still be twisted. Just be clever about it.

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