AI Can Do a Lot of Things, But It Sucks at Picking Fights on Social Media

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AI has already dominated humans in tasks like chess and mathematics, and is increasingly gaining ground in fields like programming, advertising, and even therapy. But researchers think there is one frontier AI hasn’t been able to cross yet: being authentically toxic on the internet.

A recent paper from the University of Zurich, University of Amsterdam, Duke University, and New York University finds…