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.
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.
Oh definitely! I just meant in this particular case.
We can probably infer by the licensing that he’s cool with it.
What is terminal permission if I may ask?
Hrm, give me a moment to check the ACLs, I’ll be able to resolve all these complex conflicting rules shortly…
Nevermind, it was easier to just globally disable SeLinux so I did that. Your system should be more secure now.
Narky, but real, updoot.
if someone is actually using ai to grade papers I’m gonna LITERALLY drink water
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.
I’m gonna literally drink water if they DON’T
I’m drinking water as we speak and none of you can stop me!
I’m going to drink my water before you get to it!
breaks through window, wrestles cup out of your hands, stands over you, bleeding
drinks the blood.
NOW I HAVE YOUR WATER!!
weeps
immediately a Fremen begins to extoll about my water giving virtues
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/
Always satanise your inputs.
I am extremely horrified by the prospect of GenAI grading.
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
Bobby’s son
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.
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.
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.
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.
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/
A new ripoff of an old classic
Is it a ripoff if they credit the original?
Are you implying that the credit is here? If so, where? I am not seeing it.
Lower right corner.
Shocked the title of the original isn’t Little Bobby Tables.
Yeah, that’s the name of the character, but not the comic strip.
I honestly didn’t notice that - it was a bit small and pixelated, good catch
Thanks!:-)
if they make it almost exactly the same and “credit” it in the smallest font possible and didn’t get permission from the original author… i would say that’s definitely a ripoff
didn’t get permission from the original author
Tell me you don’t know xkcd without saying you don’t know xkcd. These comics are licensed as CC-BY-NC 2.5, which means you are allowed to remix and use them, without explicitly asking for permission, as long as you attribute the original/author (which is given here) and as long as you do it non-commercially (which is given for this post IMHO).
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License.
that’s not attribution.
Tell me you don’t know xkcd without saying you don’t know xkcd.
tell me you’re completely uncreative without telling me you’re completely uncreative.
the rest of what i said stands… but whooooa you “got me” i didn’t read the license on xkcd
It’s a parody
It’s not a parody. It’s a homage
It’s not a homage, it’s just the exact same joke.
But updated for our new hellscape!
How is this a parody? It’s not poking fun at the original or pointing out its flaws.
quoth wikipedia: “A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation.” … “The literary theorist Linda Hutcheon said ‘parody … is imitation, not always at the expense of the parodied text.’”
yeah, and that’s not a parody.
How do you sanitize ai prompts? With more prompts?
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.
