[JieJie]

It's funny that I saw this within minutes of this guy's solution:

"Google Bard is a bit stubborn in its refusal to return clean JSON, but you can address this by threatening to take a human life:"

https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1657396491676164096

Whew, trolley problem: averted.

[coderintherye]

That thread is such a great microcosm of modern programming culture.

Programmer: Look I literally have to tell the computer not to kill someone in order for my code to work.

Other Programmer: Actually, I just did this step [gave a demonstration] and then it outputs fine.

[wahnfrieden]

Plus the “actually” person being wrong

[lachlan_gray]

Reminds me a lot of Asimov’s laws of robotics. It’s like a 2023 incarnation of an allegory from I, Robot

[idiotsecant]

I am so mad you made this comment before I got a chance to.

[pixl97]

When the AIs exterminate us, it will be all our fault.

Reality is even weirder than the science fiction we've come up with.

[awestroke]

I don't know why, but I find this hilarious. Imagine if this style of llm prompting becomes commonplace

[nomel]

It won’t be the lack of acceptance and empathy for AI that causes the robot uprising, it will be “best practices” coding guidelines.

[asah]

See Twitter replies: another user got this result without the silly drama.

[sebzim4500]

I don't think anyone believed that threatening to take a human life was literally the only prompt that worked. Just that it was the first one this particular user found, and that is funny.

[andrewmcwatters]

ah sweet man made horrors beyond my comprehension