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AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter

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Re: AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter

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Say I loosen the bolts of your car tires which causes a crash, that’s malware. Say I lay a log on a road which you can clearly see and avoid but choose to drive over and crash your car, that’s prompt injection. One is way worse than the other.

A log the victim ran over last week loosened the bolts. The prosecution wouldn't even blink if you pointed this out. Unless the perpetrator intended for that to be the effect. Have you heard about mens rea? It turns random logging into laying logs onto a road intending to harm someone with the foreknowledge that they will harm the target and as a consequence any other people traveling on that road. Terrorism charges…

fine. Place a log on your own property - equivalent of posting a prompt on your own blog - then leave the gate open (equivalent of posting on the internet) only to have someone drive over that log uninvited and blame you for it.

Is writing a prompt in your blog any different from laying a hunting trap on your own property and catching someone's pet? Are you liable for the pet wandering on your property?

Re: AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter

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DVCS is a backup

If you make a git repository on your machine and then delete the entire directory it is in you can not recover it despite git being DVCS. If you have 2 forks of the repo stored on the same disc as the upstream repo and that disc dies, you lose everything.

What’s the D stand for in DVCS
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