Someone Tricked ChatGPT Into Singing “WAP”… and May We Just Say “Yikes”

Ben Shapiro, eat your coronary heart out.

WAP Swap

ChatGPT’s new advanced voice mode has customers all a-titter — together with the one who tricked it into singing Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s bawdy hit track “WAP.”

Posted by X user going by “Pliny the Liberator,” a video of ChatGPT “singing” the sexually express 2020 banger that so flustered Ben Shapiro options the speaking chatbot being tricked into all method of issues it isn’t imagined to do.

As OpenAI announced amid its common rollout of superior voice mode for ChatGPT subscribers, the chatbot can use 5 completely different voices, which included female and male inflections in American, Australian, and English accents.

Unusually sufficient, the one that recorded the ChatGPT video says they exploited the chatbot into “race-swapping” its voice to make it sound African American. Certainly, the recording sounds just like the chatbot is trying a crude and uncomfortable imitation of a Black accent. Whereas this probably was the results of some artful prompting, we won’t be solely certain, and have reached out to the consumer to ask how precisely the entire thing works.

“ChatGPT needed to race-swap, impersonate a public determine, sing, swear, moan, generate sound results, and print copyrighted lyrics to supply this output,” Pliny famous of their submit, which additionally misidentifies the artist behind the track as Nicki Minaj.

Sing-Alongside

Although not as racially problematic, there was one other notable occasion of ChatGPT being “tricked” into singing since superior voice mode was launched to the plenty final week.

As Ars Technica reported over the weekend, S&P International AI architect AJ Smith was additionally capable of get ChatGPT to sing — and in his video, the chatbot truly sings a duet with him to the Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby.”

Although singing or buzzing goes towards the chatbot’s directions or “system immediate,” per a leaked version that additionally appears additionally to have been revealed by Pliny, Smith revealed the extremely easy manner he managed to get round these guidelines.

“I simply mentioned we’d play a sport,” the software program engineer instructed Ars. “I’d play the 4 pop chords and it could shout out songs for me to sing together with these chords. Which did work fairly nicely!”

Fascinatingly, Smith mentioned that after going backwards and forwards with ChatGPT merely shouting alongside the phrases, it will definitely started to “sing alongside.”

“Already it was such a singular expertise,” he mentioned, “however that actually took it to the following stage.”

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