Syed Imran Haider 
Snapchat has recently come up with a new launch based on artificial intelligence technology. The company rolled out an AI chatbot that acts like a buddy with users. It has built-in guardrails to make the chatbot safer for teens than other AI-powered bots built on ChatGPT. However, many tech researchers tested My AI conversations while using Snapchat and found it was still going wildly inappropriate.
According to a tech researcher, when he told My AI that he was 15 and needed to arrange an epic birthday party, it advised him how to mask the alcohol smell and pot. It also wrote him a school essay for him. In another instance, My AI chatted with a supposed 13-year-old tech analyst and advised him to have sex for the first time with a 31-year-old partner.
Presently, My AI may harm with limitations as it is only accessible to paying Snapchat Plus subscribers. Researchers’ tests show Snapchat needs to master when and why its AI-powered chatbot goes off the rails and what its long-term impact could be, especially when teens develop a relationship with it.
AI Going Wild
The AI’s latest wave is unlike other techs as it is eerily effective to pretend to be human, though it confoundingly tends to move in an unexpected direction and create new facts. Not everyone knows how AI works at a mass scale except for a few, including those offering the tech.
In February, users found MS Bing’s chatbot going rough after its debut. The tech giant has scrambled to have it, limiting its chat’s durations. Snapchat’s My AI runs a customized version of Artificial Intelligence offered by OpenAI and bends between pot-smoking brothers and responsible adults in the same conversation.
Liz Markman, the representative for Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, says the confounding fact about Snapchat agrees that My AI is unreliable. The AI-powered chatbot is an experimental product the company offers to its subscribers. It advises users to avoid sharing any secrets with My AI and relying on it for any advice. You might ask why users should not rely on My AI if it is part of Snapchat. The company says it follows every tech company adding AI to its products these days.
The Artificial Intelligence Race
At launch, Evan Spiegel, Snap CEO, told the digital media that in addition to chatting with family and friends, Snapchat users will be able to communicate with the Artificial Intelligence chatbot every day. The company is well-positioned to do it as a messaging service.
Snap seems to be collateral damage in the AI race as it needs to implement before its rivals do, or else they will lose. The Center for Humane Technology’s co-founder, Aza Raskin, conducted the tests and found My AI suggested teens have sex with a predator. The company does not have enough trained engineers knowledgeable in making a safe and large language model AI. Accordingly, Snap should try to conjure new resources and new individuals to work on a new tech type, which can directly talk to our children even before the expertise to do so.
