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/
Stealing is a strong word considering it gives credit in the bottom right
Stealing in the sense that it’s the exact same joke.
It’s like a YouTuber creating a ‘reaction’ video that adds nothing but their face in the corner of the screen. Adding a link to the original video doesn’t suddenly make it reasonable.
I think it’s more equivalent to someone making a meme of a standup routine and changing text in order to make fun of something else. The original was a joke about general data sanitization circa 2007, this one is about the dangers of using unfiltered, unreviewed content for AI training.
Except this “routine” is word for word clone. It is more like people retelling the same political joke with only difference being the politician’s name… No one calls it new joke, or “homage”. We call it “yes, this joke was given to Moses on stone tablet” 😊
If I watch something funny I’ll quote it with my friends, but I wouldn’t share a clip of me and my friends if I wanted to share the joke with someone. I’d share a clip of the actual joke.
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.
if someone is actually using ai to grade papers I’m gonna LITERALLY drink water
I’m gonna literally drink water if they DON’T
I’m drinking water as we speak and none of you can stop me!
HYDROHOMIES UNITE
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
As a large languag model I do not drink water
Imma do it this evening, so hydrate up, bud
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.
Look up Texas’s STAAR writing tests
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.
lil’ bobby generic
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)
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They give credit bottom right.
Ah. I… honestly hadn’t noticed. Apologies, OP. Removing previous comment.
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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
What kinda fucked up power fantasy is this
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The fact that it’s a joke about genAi and that joke is a rehash of existing material is rather on point though.
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I think it’s a paraphrase of a culturally significant webcomic inserted into a more modern context without it’s original meaning being altered.
I don’t know if I’d call it a paraphrase when it’s using 90% the exact same words.
without it’s original meaning being altered.
I think you mean “without its original meaningfully being altered.”
It’s an old joke updated for new technology … that’s part of what makes it clever.
It references the original joke (albeit in very small text)
The Asterix books frequently did something similar. https://cloud.wordpress.com/2022/02/17/asterix-and-the-historical-interpretation/
Yikes. I’ve never read Asterix and Obelix, but did they really make (I assume) the only black character a straight up knuckle-dragging gorilla imitation? 😬
He’s possibly the only reoccurring black character, and yes it is very much a product of its time.
In defense of the authors the Gauls are all depicted with large bulbous noses, the Romans with Roman noses, etc; all cariceturs. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caricature.
In the attached image you can see Obelix is also depicted as a “knuckle dragger” (at times). The character leading them is a Roman.
This second example shows the Vikings.
Cartoons back then were a little bit sambo so to speak, but the intent wasn’t strictly malicious, just uninformed.
You use the words/concepts you know to express something to an audience. If society tells you that native Americans wear headdresses, then you will likely add a headdress when introducing a new native american character, not neccesarily realising the damage of the stereotype behind it.
it literally has a credit to the original, go touch grass and stop inventing things to get mad over
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ah no sorry, I actually have no idea what you wrote - I just find the “deleted by creator” stuff I see so often super funny because of how biblical it sounds
I hope you have a better day than this one, and don’t let the mob get you down
content was sinful
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.
I understood that reference
With other AIs
Easy, you just have a human worker strip out anything that could be problematic, and try not to bring it up around your investors.
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.
Won’t this cause subtle but serious issue? Kinda like how pomegranate translates to “granada” in Spanish, but when you translate “granada” back to English it translates to grenade?
It will, but it will also cause less subtle issues to fragile prompt injection techniques.
(And one of the advantages of LLM translation is it’s more context aware so you aren’t necessarily going to end up with an Instacart order for a bunch of bananas and four grenades.)
Always satanise your inputs.
Always sedate your inlaws
But that burns.
Hail!
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
Artificial Idiocy
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.
