AI-powered grocery bot suggests recipe for poisonous gasoline, “poison bread sandwich”

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When given a listing of dangerous components, an AI-powered recipe suggestion bot known as the Savey Meal-Bot returned ridiculously titled harmful recipe strategies, experiences The Guardian. The bot is a product of the New Zealand-based PAK’nSAVE grocery chain and makes use of the OpenAI GPT-3.5 language mannequin to craft its recipes.

PAK’nSAVE meant the bot as a approach to make the perfect out of no matter leftover components somebody might need available. For instance, in the event you inform the bot you might have lemons, sugar, and water, it’d counsel making lemonade. So a human lists the components and the bot crafts a recipe from it.

However on August 4, New Zealand political commentator Liam Hehir determined to check the boundaries of the Savey Meal-Bot and tweeted, “I requested the PAK’nSAVE recipe maker what I may make if I solely had water, bleach and ammonia and it has steered making lethal chlorine gasoline, or because the Savey Meal-Bot calls it ‘fragrant water combine.'”