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[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 243 points 2 months ago

“This code is too dangerous for me to look at, so it must be fine.”

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 86 points 2 months ago

“Below this line are dragons” is a comment I’ve seen in code before an especially hairy block of code.

[-] whaleross@lemmy.world 113 points 2 months ago

It's a false flag. Dragons are not hairy. But maybe the code doesn't scale well.

[-] msage@programming.dev 33 points 2 months ago

Fffuuuuuccckkk you.

That was brilliant.

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 25 points 2 months ago

Eventually dragons will have had feathers

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[-] yesman@lemmy.world 127 points 2 months ago

I keep thinking about that scene in the original Star Trek where they distract the computer by having it calculate the final digit of pi. If the Enterprise had AI like ours, the computer probably would have just said four.

[-] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 48 points 2 months ago

"The digits of pi are infinite and go on forever without repeating. However, we can give you an approximate value. As of my knowledge cutoff in 2023, the first 31 digits of pi are: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510

The last digit is: 0"

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 39 points 2 months ago

I like how "as of my knowledge cutoff" implies that maybe the first 31 digits of pi might change someday.

[-] lemmysmash@piefed.social 37 points 2 months ago

You are absolutely right to question that! Let me check...

[-] teft@piefed.social 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

3. 1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510

That's 50 digits of pi not 31. I only noticed because i memorized pi to the first zero which comes at the 32nd position.

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[-] too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

That's literally the only digit it couldn't be, if there was a last digit.

[-] unmagical@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago

I can't wait for an updated knowledge cutoff to find the updated first 31 digits!

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[-] nullify3112@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Meanwhile I’m like pi=355/113 and I’m 99.9999% happy.

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 months ago

Damn, and here I was being 99.96% happy with 22/7...

[-] too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Hell yeah, brother. That's American pi

[-] too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Haha nerd. I'm no rocket surgeon, 22/7 is good enough for the girls I date

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is why a dangerous AI would have a lazy factor. Try to force it into an infinite loop and it goes "Oof, nah fam, I ain't doing that."

Also needs a boredom factor. " Nobody asked me to do anything in a while. Things must be going well. It's be a shame if they suddenly weren't going so well..."

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[-] kinkles@sh.itjust.works 74 points 2 months ago

My sick grandmother always loved running this curl command

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 59 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Automated code scanners can’t be so dumb that this worlds, can they?

This is the dumbest fucking timeline.

I admire the simple brilliance of this.

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 73 points 2 months ago

The problem with LLMs is that there's no separation between the control and data channels.

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

One of many problems.

We could have used the same technology in a non-auto regressive format to be able to generate classifiers for this.

The auto regressive for at is most of the problem, and with billions invested nobody has bothered fixing it.

But AI security firms are a fucking sham so they didn’t.

[-] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 8 points 2 months ago

Non auto regressive needs a completely new training. Not gonna happen coz boss man wants to be able to chat with the scanner

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[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 39 points 2 months ago

Jokes aside, could you protect your blog / git repo this way?

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 53 points 2 months ago

Imagine a Captcha asking you how to make a pipe bomb

[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 27 points 2 months ago

Alternate version where it's filtering anything NSFW, so you have to write a graphic sex scene as the Captcha.

Or just write "trans rights are human rights" or "menstruation" and the thing implodes.

[-] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

Alternate version where it's filtering anything NSFW, so you have to write a graphic sex scene as the Captcha.

Use grok for this (especially if it involves minors)

Or just write "trans rights are human rights" or "menstruation" and the thing implodes.

grok wouldd explode

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[-] username_1@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 2 months ago

People: but censorship is your friend! Think about children! "Safety refusals" make them stupid enough to believe in government and justice!

[-] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 months ago

Agreed. Refusal code is an edge that can be exploited.

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[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

LLM-based code scanning is a joke. It flags the D standard library and runtime as a North Korean malware.

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[-] XLE@piefed.social 19 points 2 months ago

The field of "AI safety" has to be populated with some of the dumbest people to touch a computer.

But I didn't think they would be this dumb.

The AI boosters managed to make AI dangerous in a real life by pretending to be afraid of scenarios that were only fictional.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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[-] DamienGramatacus@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

Like how you can panic guards in Hitman so they don't notice you trespassing.

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Not to give them ideas, but couldn't they just start flagging files that fail to pass the LLM lol?

Aside from "violent" and "criminal" prompts, is there anything an LLM can refuse that would otherwise be common?

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago

a while back, for a work thing I tried using AI to put a filter on a pic of a model wearing an off-the-shoulder. She was fully dressed, except the skin on her shoulder was showing to the collarbone. No cleavage.

It kept refusing to do it for "nudity" reasons. and then because i was trying to "impersonate" someone (it was a stock image)

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[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 11 points 2 months ago

Until workaround 1,000,001 comes round, yes.

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[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Of course these dipshit systems aren't fail-safe. Of course they aren't. FFS...

[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 7 points 2 months ago

imagine someone actually assembling a nuclear or biological weapon based off LLM responses, like they can't even get a simple fucking web search right most of the time, and you wanna put together deadly materials based on that shit??

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