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After over a year of hearing people say this, at some point the burden of proof shifts to the people making the claim. There was a period where LLMs were extre
by danShumway 3y ago
After over a year of hearing people say this, at some point the burden of proof shifts to the people making the claim.
There was a period where LLMs were extremely inaccessible to train where it would have been reasonable to say "the mitigation is easy, but OpenAI hasn't done it." But nowadays, indie models and freeware models are much more common, and there are even models with open datasets. Fine tuning can be done on a Macbook. Purchasing compute to fully replicate a smaller model is within reach of a lot of people.
There is still a cost involved, it's not trivial -- but it's a lot more accessible than it used to be. So at what point is it reasonable to respond to the people saying, "it's easy, just do X" with "well, do it then."?
If the training method you're describing works, then what is preventing someone from training a 7B model over the next week that's invulnerable to prompt injection?