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These things are still just statistical models that generate text. You cannot trick something that doesn't have thought processes or even intention in the first
by chmod775 3y ago
These things are still just statistical models that generate text. You cannot trick something that doesn't have thought processes or even intention in the first place.
You make it do something it wasn't supposed to. The word typically used in that context would be hack, even if that now sounds weird after all the anthropomorphizing we've been doing.
- ghaff 3y agoSomeone might colloquially say you can trick a SQL database into dropping a table if the inputs aren't properly sanitized. But no one reasonable thinks that you're actually messing with the thought processes of the database whereas a fair number of people might in the case of the LLM.
- calderknight 3y agoI don't think there's a contradiction between being something that just generates text and being something that does have thought processes and intention.
- shrimp_emoji 3y agoYep. Imagine reading ASCII art, verbally, one character at a time, to a dementia patient in a context in which they're not expecting it. They'll probably react negatively.
- IshKebab 3y agoTrick is a perfectly reasonable word to use in that context. There was never any requirement for "trick" to only be about humans.