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I used GPT-4 to generate a non-cryptographic random 64 character string. It was faster to ask GPT-4 for the string than ask GPT-4 for the instructions to genera
by lumost 3y ago
I used GPT-4 to generate a non-cryptographic random 64 character string. It was faster to ask GPT-4 for the string than ask GPT-4 for the instructions to generate the string from my terminal. GPT-4 was faster than google.
- ThrowawayTestr 3y agoSurely navigating to random.org is faster than typing a prompt.
- oefnak 3y agoThat definitely won't be random.
- dgb23 3y agoThat’s likely a very good example of the limitations of LLMs.
- deafpolygon 3y agoI don't think this will be a truly random string.
- reportgunner 3y agoWere you in a room that had it's walls slowly caving in like in indiana jones or why does it matter that it was faster ?
- lumost 3y agoClose! Was in a meeting and needed to see the behavior of a system when passed a string greater than 64 char. My mental capacity was used elsewhere - using chatGPT let me answer an important customer question authoritatively.
- josefx 3y agowouldn't it be less time to just type one yourself? Like open notepad, hit the keys like a deranged monkey, select the first 64 characters, done?
- Traubenfuchs 3y agoThat is very much not random, but generally enough for 99% of all use cases.
- rcxdude 3y agoI would not bet on whether chatgpt's results would be more or less random than this process.
- Traubenfuchs 3y agoAren't chatgpts results deterministic if you use the same seed, temperature and other parameters?
- WithinReason 3y agoIt would be more random than an LLM's output
- 0x000xca0xfe 3y agoObligatory bash solution: $ random_bytes() { xxd -plain -c 0 -l "$1" /dev/urandom; } $ random_bytes 32 e6a4a7bbea69a0164cbb66c89f8f528af93c6d2459fd28d2640e2952c031b618
- ineedasername 3y ago>/dev/urandom Hmm, I’ve been using /usr/games/fortune Is this not a best practice?
- gardenhedge 3y agoI'm glad ChatGPT exists so I don't have to remember any of that