---
title: "Why can AI chatbots produce scary outputs?"
description: "Most written content about AI focuses on doomsday scenarios, and that's what the models learned from."
date: 2023-02-18
tags: [ai, how-llms-work]
url: https://nem035.com/thoughts/ai-chatbot-scary
---

Because that's how science fiction predominantly writes about AI and most of written content on AI is science fiction.

Programs like ChatGPT and Bing are trained to create text inspired by their training data, which is the text humans have written across the internet.

Any "scary" output is just a highly probable output a human would've produced given the same prompt.