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[–] [email protected] 195 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

My gawds, some people need to learn what's a homage and also stop being upset on behalf of others. This comic is fine, stop bellyaching. This is what terminal permission culture does to a motherfucker.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The only person who should care about anything other than the quality is Randall. However since he licensed it CC BY-NC 2.5 how he feels about it doesn't really matter either.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think people should be concerned about things on others' behalfs. We all need to stick together.

This situation is a send-up though. Totally not a concern.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

We can probably infer by the licensing that he's cool with it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (4 children)

What is terminal permission if I may ask?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

Permission culture is a term primarily criticizing copyright law. Something that I would expect db0 to agree with! πŸ΄β€β˜ οΈ

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[–] [email protected] 174 points 6 months ago (3 children)

A new ripoff of an old classic

[–] [email protected] 183 points 6 months ago (22 children)

Is it a ripoff if they credit the original?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

In a version that doesn’t even fully make sense. With databases there is a well-defined way to sanitize your inputs so arbitrary commands can’t be run like in the xkcd comic. But with AI it’s not even clear how to avoid all of these kinds of problems, so the chiding at the end doesn’t really make sense. If anything the person should be saying β€œI hope you learned not to use AI for this”.

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[–] [email protected] 133 points 6 months ago (4 children)

if someone is actually using ai to grade papers I'm gonna LITERALLY drink water

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm gonna literally drink water if they DON'T

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (6 children)

I'm drinking water as we speak and none of you can stop me!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

As a large languag model I do not drink water

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

More like "And I hope you learned not to trust the wellbeing and education of the children entrusted to you to a program that's not capable of doing either."

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Well that would require too much work invested into stealing of https://xkcd.com/327/

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It could be credibly called an homage if it had a new punchline, but methinks the creator didn't know what "sanitize" meant in this context.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Stealing is a strong word considering it gives credit in the bottom right

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago

With xkcd attributed at the bottom of the image <3

Here's the XKCD: https://xkcd.com/327/

[–] [email protected] 62 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It was in fact the mum who was good with computers. Bobby himself was never that interested in exploits.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago

He probably found it very hard to make any accounts on computers

[–] [email protected] 55 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Always satanise your inputs.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Its a MEH update on little bobby tables. Who is in his twenties now.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago

It's his younger brother Williams, tho.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Reminds me of: https://www.wired.com/story/null-license-plate-landed-one-hacker-ticket-hell/

A guy thought it would be funny to change his license plate to NULL.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

So to combat our horrible privacy culture we should name everything null...

hi my name is null, null.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

LLM system input is unsanitizable, according to NVidia:

The control-data plane confusion inherent in current LLMs means that prompt injection attacks are common, cannot be effectively mitigated, and enable malicious users to take control of the LLM and force it to produce arbitrary malicious outputs with a very high likelihood of success.

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/securing-llm-systems-against-prompt-injection/

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

One of the best things ever about LLMs is how you can give them absolute bullshit textual garbage and they can parse it with a huge level of accuracy.

Some random chunks of html tables, output a csv and convert those values from imperial to metric.

Fragments of a python script and ask it to finish the function and create a readme to explain the purpose of the function. And while it's at it recreate the missing functions.

Copy paste of a multilingual website with tons of formatting and spelling errors. Ask it to fix it. Boom done.

Of course, the problem here is that developers can no longer clean their inputs as well and are encouraged to send that crappy input straight along to the LLM for processing.

There's definitely going to be a whole new wave of injection style attacks where people figure out how to reverse engineer AI company magic.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (6 children)

How do you sanitize ai prompts? With more prompts?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Easy, you just have a human worker strip out anything that could be problematic, and try not to bring it up around your investors.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's really easy, just throw an error if you detect a program will cause a halt. I don't know why these engineers refuse to just patch it.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I am extremely horrified by the prospect of GenAI grading.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

Artificial Idiocy

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