GPT-4o's Chinese Tokens Reportedly Compromised by Spam and Pornography Due to Inadequate Filtering
May 14, 2024
OpenAI's GPT-4o was found to have its Chinese token training data compromised by spam and pornographic phrases due to inadequate data cleaning. Tianle Cai, a Ph.D. student at Princeton University, identified that most of the longest Chinese tokens were irrelevant and inappropriate, primarily originating from spam and pornography websites. The polluted tokens could lead to hallucinations, poor performance, and potential misuse, undermining the chatbot's reliability and safety measures.
- Alleged deployer
- openai, gpt-4o
- Alleged developer
- openai
- Alleged harmed parties
- chinese-speaking-users-of-chatgpt, researchers, openai, openai-users
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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/729
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