Eine einseitige Beziehung mit ChatGPT

Prof. Dr. Oliver Bendel war am 15. Oktober 2025 im Gespräch mit SRF. Es ging um die geplante Erotikfunktion von ChatGPT und überhaupt um die einseitigen Beziehungen, die Benutzer mit Chatbots haben. Er führte aus, dass es für OpenAI – abgesehen vom Finanzierungsbedarf – ein idealer Moment ist. Zum einen sind die Technologien weit entwickelt. Text- und Stimmqualität sind herausragend. Zum anderen ist der Bedarf da. Millionen von Benutzern führen schon einseitige Beziehungen mit Artefakten, viele davon glauben, dass sie ihre Freunde sind. Das 21. Jahrhundert, so der Technikphilosoph, ist das einsamste Jahrhundert aller Zeiten. Insofern könnte das Projekt ein Erfolg werden. Zugleich stellen sich Fragen. OpenAI gilt als hypermoralische Instanz, wo zahlreiche Prompts sanktioniert werden. In der Standardeinstellung im Deutschen gendert es. Wie sind angesichts solcher Umstände wirklich erotische Gespräche möglich? Sicher wird OpenAI seine Gängeleien ein Stück weit herunterfahren. Erwachsene sollen wie Erwachsene behandelt werden, sagte Sam Altman sinngemäß. Es ist interessant, dass dies erst im Adult-Modus umgesetzt wird. Das Interview wurde bei News Plus ausgestrahlt und kann über www.srf.ch nachgehört werden.

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A Use Case for Moral Prompt Engineering

On May 28, 2025, the „Proceedings of the 2025 AAAI Spring Symposium Series“ (Vol. 5 No. 1) were published. Oliver Bendel was involved in two papers at the symposium „Human-Compatible AI for Well-being: Harnessing Potential of GenAI for AI-Powered Science“. The paper „Miss Tammy as a Use Case for Moral Prompt Engineering“ by Myriam Rellstab and Oliver Bendel is summarized as follows: „This paper describes an LLM-based chatbot as a use case for moral prompt engineering. Miss Tammy, as it is called, was created between February 2024 and February 2025 at the FHNW School of Business as a custom GPT. Different types of prompt engineering were used. In addition, RAG was applied by building a knowledge base with a collection of netiquettes. These usually guide the behavior of users in communities but also seem to be useful to control the actions of chatbots and make them competent in relation to the behavior of humans. The tests with pupils aged between 14 and 16 showed that the custom GPT had significant advantages over the standard GPT-4o model in terms of politeness, appropriateness, and clarity. It is suitable for de-escalating conflicts and steering dialogues in the right direction. It can therefore contribute to users’ well-being and is a step forward in human-compatible AI.“ The renowned and traditional conference took place from March 31 to April 2, 2025 in San Francisco. The proceedings are available at ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI-SS/issue/view/654.

Fig.: Miss Tammy

Image Generators from an Ethical Perspective

The article „Image Synthesis from an Ethical Perspective“ by Prof. Dr. Oliver Bendel was published as an electronic version in the journal AI & SOCIETY on September 27, 2023. It addresses the ethical implications of image generators, i.e., a specific form of generative AI. It can now also be found in the current print edition from February 2025 (Volume 40, Issue 2). From the abstract: „Generative AI has gained a lot of attention in society, business, and science. This trend has increased since 2018, and the big breakthrough came in 2022. In particular, AI-based text and image generators are now widely used. This raises a variety of ethical issues. The present paper first gives an introduction to generative AI and then to applied ethics in this context. Three specific image generators are presented: DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney. The author goes into technical details and basic principles, and compares their similarities and differences. This is followed by an ethical discussion. The paper addresses not only risks, but opportunities for generative AI. A summary with an outlook rounds off the article.“ A lot has happened with image generators since 2023. The new one from OpenAI now also allows photorealistic images, and it has fewer problems with average-looking people – DALL-E 2 and 3 favored beauty over mediocrity and ugliness. The article can be downloaded from link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-023-01780-4.

Fig.: An AI-generated astronaut