I think my philosophy when making software is that it should work for people with zero money or no bank account / credit card.
I know it's not a popular mindset to be in since money and profit is everything in the tech world.
I think it comes from growing up as a kid with no disposable income or access to anything but my shitty computer.
I'd rather support people with almost nothing than people with latest and greatest tech gizmos and spare cash for subscription services. 😅
@mauve you could also bring little presents to give them, like seasonal vegetables or a home-made jam, I hear if you do that enough people will want to marry you 🤔
when you start considering 'marketing and advertising' as a kind of psychologically abusive manipulation, and you consider how chatgpt is already specifically structured to "encourage engagement" by means of psychologically abusive manipulation, the use of the latter for dispensing the former becomes perfectly obviously effective.
“Prompt injection” is a misleading label.
What we’re seeing in real LLM systems looks a lot more like malware campaigns than single-shot exploits.
This paper argues LLM attacks are a new malware class, Promptware, and maps them to a familiar 5-stage kill chain:
• Initial access (prompt injection)
• Priv esc (jailbreaks)
• Persistence (memory / RAG poisoning)
• Lateral movement (cross-agent / cross-user spread)
• Actions on objective (exfil, fraud, execution)
If you’ve ever thought: “why does this feel like 90s/2000s malware all over again?", that’s the point.
Security theater around “guardrails” misses the real issue:
models can’t reliably distinguish instructions from data
assume initial access. Design for containment
a while ago i saw a tumblr post comparing some kind of arcane piracy process to the steps for navigating the underworld of greek mythology … does anyone have that handy? its important
FOUND IT: https://clarabeau.tumblr.com/post/748307077456363520
Some relaxing music for some chill evening code. (cw: loud screeching)
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