ChatGPT sign displayed on OpenAI website displayed on a laptop screen and OpenAI logo displayed on a phone screen are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on February 2, 2023.Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesChatGPT debuted in November 2022, garnering worldwide attention almost instantaneously. The artificial intelligence is capable of answering questions on anything from historical facts to generating computer code, and has dazzled the world, sparking a wave of AI investment. Now users have found a way to tap into its dark side, using coercive methods to force the AI to violate its own rules and provide users the content — whatever content — they want.ChatGPT creator OpenAI instituted an evolving set of safeguards, limiting ChatGPT’s ability to create violent content, encourage illegal activity, or access up-to-date information. But a new “jailbreak” trick allows users to skirt those rules by creating a ChatGPT alter ego named DAN that can answer some of those queries. And, in a dystopian twist, users m …
