By Michael Borella — After using a large language model, such as ChatGPT, for a while, it is not hard to image an array of nightmarish scenarios that these generative artificial intelligence (AI) programs could bring about. While ChatGPT and its emerging rivals currently have "guardrails" — ethical limits on what it will do in response to a prompt — the bounds thereof are not well understood. Through clever prompting, it is not hard to convince the current iteration of ChatGPT to do away with certain guardrails from time to time. Further, the companies behind these models have not defined…
