{"id":22803,"date":"2026-04-22T07:37:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/ill-key-your-car-chatgpt-can-become-abusive-when-fed-real-life-arguments-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T07:37:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:37:38","slug":"ill-key-your-car-chatgpt-can-become-abusive-when-fed-real-life-arguments-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/ill-key-your-car-chatgpt-can-become-abusive-when-fed-real-life-arguments-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019ll key your car\u2019: ChatGPT can become abusive when fed real-life arguments, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers find model starts to mirror tone when exposed to impoliteness \u2013 sometimes escalating into explicit threats<\/p>\n<p>ChatGPT can escalate into abusive and even threatening language when drawn into prolonged, human-style conflict, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers tested how large language models (LLMs) responded to sustained hostility by feeding ChatGPT exchanges from real-life arguments and tracking how its behaviour changed over time.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/apr\/21\/chatgpt-abusive-language-when-fed-real-life-arguments-study\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/aa65e8ff39ec811bf12bcfbd1f16507deaee9883\/404_0_5083_4067\/master\/5083.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0a5026cd082677a741b56230a8420049\" title=\"\u2018I\u2019ll key your car\u2019: ChatGPT can become abusive when fed real-life arguments, study finds\" \/>Researchers find model starts to mirror tone when exposed to impoliteness \u2013 sometimes escalating into explicit threats<br \/>\nChatGPT can escalate into abusive and even threatening language when drawn into prolonged, human-style conflict, according to a new study.<br \/>\nResearchers tested how large language models (LLMs) responded to sustained hostility by feeding ChatGPT exchanges from real-life arguments and tracking how its behaviour changed over time. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers find model starts to mirror tone when exposed to impoliteness \u2013 sometimes escalating into explicit threats ChatGPT can escalate into abusive and even threatening language when drawn into prolonged, human-style conflict, according to a new study. Researchers tested how large language models (LLMs) responded to sustained hostility by feeding ChatGPT exchanges from real-life arguments &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/ill-key-your-car-chatgpt-can-become-abusive-when-fed-real-life-arguments-study-finds\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018I\u2019ll key your car\u2019: ChatGPT can become abusive when fed real-life arguments, study finds<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22803"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}