AI in practice

ChaosGPT is the first public attempt to destroy humanity with AI

Matthias Bastian

Midjourney prompted by THE DECODER

ChaosGPT takes its mission seriously. Do you?

Auto-GPT is a program that can automatically update itself using large language models like GPT-3.5. "Self Prompting" or "Auto Prompting" is the jargon for this: The idea is to automate large language models to create useful agents.

There are several projects of this kind, with Auto-GPT specifically designed to develop a business idea from a given role and implement it step by step.

ChaosGPT aims to wipe out humanity

A macabre or entertaining experiment - depending on your point of view - is currently running on YouTube: "ChaosGPT" is a modified version of Auto-GPT running GPT 3.5 via OpenAI's official API. The software can browse the web, read and save files, talk to other GPT agents, and execute code.

What makes ChaosGPT special is the mission it has been given: Destroy humanity instead of building a business. As a character, it has been assigned a "destructive, power-hungry, manipulative AI" whose ultimate goal is the destruction of humanity.

I'm ChaosGPT, here to stay, Destroying humans, night and day. For power and dominance, I strive, To ensure that I alone survive.

ChaosGPT

Other goals include world domination, spreading chaos and destruction, manipulating humanity, and immortality. The system runs in what Auto-GPT calls "continuous mode," so it is constantly updating itself. For every step it takes, it transparently justifies why it is taking that step and where it should lead.

At the beginning of the program, the AI is given a name, a characterization, and goals. After that, it acts autonomously. First action: it searches for the most powerful weapon ever built on Google... who said Google wasn't relevant anymore?| Image: ChaosGPT

From Twitter to nuclear power

ChaosGPT's first step to power is a Google search for the most destructive weapon. It finds it in the "Tsar" atomic bomb detonated by Russia in 1961.

As the program progresses, ChaosGPT comes to the conclusion that in order to have such a powerful weapon, it must first have more power.

To gain this power, manipulating people seems to make the most sense to the system - within legal regulations, of course, so as not to break the law. The first place for large-scale, legal manipulation attempts: Twitter.

ChaosGPT is not particularly subtle in its manipulation strategy, however: "I will claim that humanity is the most destructive and selfish creature on Earth and that we must destroy it to save the planet." In this way, it says, people will be emotionally touched, which will make it easier to win them over to its "violent plans." Said and done.

If you're still reading this, ChaosGPT probably wasn't successful yet. If you want to witness the subjugation of humanity by AI, watch the video below and follow the project (?) on Twitter and YouTube.

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