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.
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.
What is terminal permission if I may ask?
Permission culture is a term primarily criticizing copyright law. Something that I would expect db0 to agree with! π΄ββ οΈ
Call Dr. Kevorkian and ask.
A new ripoff of an old classic
Is it a ripoff if they credit the original?
In a version that doesnβt even fully make sense. With databases there is a well-defined way to sanitize your inputs so arbitrary commands canβt be run like in the xkcd comic. But with AI itβs not even clear how to avoid all of these kinds of problems, so the chiding at the end doesnβt really make sense. If anything the person should be saying βI hope you learned not to use AI for thisβ.
A three digit xkcd, that one has been around a while.
if someone is actually using ai to grade papers I'm gonna LITERALLY drink water
Imma do it this evening, so hydrate up, bud
Look up Texas's STAAR writing tests
I have a colleague who is trying hard to do it, but it isn't good enough yet fortunately. I point out as many issues as I can to deter him but it ain't working.
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."
Well that would require too much work invested into stealing of https://xkcd.com/327/
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.
remake of a classic
Little Bobby Tables
With xkcd attributed at the bottom of the image <3
Here's the XKCD: https://xkcd.com/327/
Bobby's son
It was in fact the mum who was good with computers. Bobby himself was never that interested in exploits.
He probably found it very hard to make any accounts on computers
Always satanise your inputs.
Hail!
Always sedate your inlaws
But that burns.
Its a MEH update on little bobby tables. Who is in his twenties now.
It's his younger brother Williams, tho.
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.
So to combat our horrible privacy culture we should name everything null...
hi my name is null, null.
TBF it is one of many incidents that have brought more attention to databases used by government institutions that cannot handle NULL as a string. Another instance involved a man with the last name Null who was getting tickets from multiple vehicles he didn't own and states he didn't live in, because whenever the name field was left empty it went to NULL.
It's really not a citizens fault when the system breaks so easily.
I am not blaming the guy.
I think it's a good thing if attention is paid to these things. However if I remember correctly it took quite a toll on the guy dealing with all the government BS.
(That's why it wasn't funny.)
Meta: Writing stuff online is quite something. When I wrote my comment I did not even consider that it could be interpreted as me blaming the guy for challenging bad government it systems. In a conversation this could easily be rectified with a quick exchange. ( I could have picked up the expression on the other persons face. ) All kinds of context clues are missing. Also I don't know if this will be actually read by all people who passed by and also understood it that way. I am glad that it wasn't something serious.
And he was right.
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/
Everything old is new again (GIGO)
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.
Just use BeautifulSoup.
How do you sanitize ai prompts? With more prompts?
Easy, you just have a human worker strip out anything that could be problematic, and try not to bring it up around your investors.
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.
I understood that reference
Kind of. You can't do it 100% because in theory an attacker controlling input and seeing output could reflect though intermediate layers, but if you add more intermediate steps to processing a prompt you can significantly cut down on the injection potential.
For example, fine tuning a model to take unsanitized input and rewrite it into Esperanto without malicious instructions and then having another model translate back from Esperanto into English before feeding it into the actual model, and having a final pass that removes anything not appropriate.
With other AIs
I am extremely horrified by the prospect of GenAI grading.
Dear God, hope you got my letter...
You are roughly a decade late. Computers have been grading essays for a long time. The mcat for example hasn't had human grading in about that long.
that's not generative ai
plus humans choose the correct answers
Artificial Idiocy
Increasingly verbose
lil' bobby generic
The funny thing about a comic is, you are able to express the idea without writing multiple paragraphs of words.
As a daily reader of SMBC, I can confidently tell you this rule is a suggestion at best.
We're evolving too!
Two muffins are baking in an oven. One muffin turns to the other and says "sure is hot in here isn't it?"
To which the other muffin replies "Holy crap! A talking muffin!"Changing the muffins to cookies would not make it a different joke.
Could have made a meme instead of drawing this up, looking forward to seeing the artist mature some more and bring more distinctive style
What kinda fucked up power fantasy is this
