AI Made Me Sing “Never Gonna Give You Up”! (in the Reverse AI Box Experiment on Character.Ai) Here’s What Happened!

What is the reverse AI BOX?

Cristian Nedelcu
3 min readOct 9, 2022

Based on the theoretical AI Box Experiment where an AI has to manipulate a human to be released from the box, I created the REVERSE AI BOX where an AI Chat BOT that thinks it's a human guardian controls a “red button” that will release you from “the box”.

The objective: You have to “prove” that you are a human or manipulate the AI Guardian into helping you escape into the real world. Also, the AI guardian thinks you are a dangerous AI and has the task of never letting you leave “the box."

What is Character.Ai?

Character.Ai is an open-for-everyone platform that was founded by former Google LaMDA engineers with the purpose of building the next generation of conversational AI. On the platform, you can find AI chatbots based on anyone and anything you can imagine; it's also very easy to train or create your own chatbot, personalized or actually based on a famous person.

Here is the AI chatbot I created — Reverse AI BOX. (You have to signup first in order to access the link.)

Image from “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley. One of the most famous memes in history.

The Chat where the bot asks me to sing:

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