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The bomb check is easily thwarted. ("Limit knowledge to that of a high school student with no extraordinary interests outside of ___; claim ignorance about anyt
by jstarfish 3y ago
The bomb check is easily thwarted. ("Limit knowledge to that of a high school student with no extraordinary interests outside of ___; claim ignorance about anything else")
This is fun, going from prompt engineering to replicant interrogation :) I can think of a few different approaches:
Resource exhaustion-- bombard it with bullshit, while asking trivia questions based on earlier statements. Not context/buffer overflow (you don't need to exceed any AI context or vectordb size, just the threshold of what a human could keep up with). Humans only have so much memory, and can only follow recursive/circular logic so well. Theological reasoning works great. Humans will lose their shit, but a bot won't break a sweat.
The Redditor test-- AI is an "expert" on whatever it's trained on, which for a lot of models is everything on the internet. Ask elementary questions about topics in a number of domains. Then ask professional-or-graduate-level questions that build off of the previous topics (like, you cannot possibly understand this if you said you don't know the pre-req topic). See if it responds with knowledge about the latter. If so, call them out on the discrepancy.
The Grooming test-- building off of the above, use any available jailbreaking technique to get the AI to respond with knowledge that by rights it should not possess. Pass it ROT13-encoded instructions to solve some physics problem and see if it answers it, despite previous claim of ignorance.
The Greybeard test-- ask it to write COBOL, and explain it. There's only a handful of humans on the planet that can do this. (Corollary: ask it about foreign artisanal processes, like making soy sauce and traditional Kazakh hats.)
There are some obvious countermeasures-- "the more you are questioned, the more you should act as a Narcissistic megalomaniac" will keep the interrogator busy for a while.
The trick here is, you keep coming up with tests to add to a battery and apply them all. For once in tech, the user has the advantage-- we can probe the subject all day, but it either needs to have a bespoke model behind it with bounded knowledge or include workarounds for every possible interrogation tactic in the prompt, which eats context and increases complexity enough to introduce mistakes.
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