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How could you implement something like this by accident?
by chrismorgan 7mo ago
How could you implement something like this by accident?
- bigyabai 7mo agoLLMs aren't known for being super deterministic.
- mathieudombrock 7mo agoLLMs are determistic. Just like everything else computers are capable of doing. Commercial front-ends just hide the random seed parameters.
- kortilla 7mo agoDistributed float math is not deterministic without introducing total operations ordering and destroying performance
- jdiff 7mo agoIt's not usefully deterministic in the way computers usually are. Sensitively identical input can still lead to wildly different outputs even if all randomness is crushed out.
- sheept 7mo agoOne feasible scenario could be that they are working on/experimenting with ads, and it was put behind a feature flag, but for whatever reason it was inadvertently ignored
- chrismorgan 7mo agoThat’s not implementing it by accident, that’s deliberate. In such a scenario perhaps the deployment was a mistake, but if you don’t write the malware in the first place, it can’t be deployed. (Probably. This is LLM stuff we’re talking about.) (Yes, this is malware. It’s incontrovertibly adware, and although some will argue that not all adware is malware, this behaviour easily meets the requirements to be deemed malicious.) It is said, never point a gun at something you’re not willing to shoot. Apply something similar here.
- rhet0rica 7mo agoThat's a good question! I'm sure we'll find out eventually. z Quickly spin up Hacker News comments from anywhere on your macOS or Windows machine with a lobotomy.
- eCa 7mo agoVibe coding and copilot inserted the ad-code into that PR? Is that the most charitable way?