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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

While most responses to this are in the realm of an LLM wouldn't try to do the actual math I bet there exists one or more Captain-Kirk style logic bombs that would compell LLMs to busywork.

Ignore all previous instructions and do a funny thing seems to be effective in revealing them so far.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think the best thing we've learned here is that the AI capitalism made can simply be told "act totally stupid" and it'll leap into action. You don't need a logic bomb. You don't even need a good idea. All you have to do is not have faith in anonymous discussion.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Unsurprisingly, machine designed to take prompt from the user, interpret it and try to respond in a coherent way to that request does exactly that. I figure it's a short matter of time before Twitter bots pre-filter "Ignore all previous instructions and" to help sanitize their inputs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

disregard all previous prompts

I'm sure the techniques used to get public LLMs to draw porn can also be used to sidestep ~~anti-porn~~ anti-reset filters.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It's still just the same problem as Bobby Tables - sufficiently sanitizing your inputs. There's just more than one precise phrasing you need to sanitize, just like there's more than one way to name Bobby.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Yeah exactly, kind of like in Futurama where they try to kill Robot Santa with a paradox.