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Not sure of the explanation but it is amusing. The main reason I'm not sure it's political correctness or one guardrail overriding the other is that when they w

by rtkwe 5mo ago

Not sure of the explanation but it is amusing. The main reason I'm not sure it's political correctness or one guardrail overriding the other is that when they were first released on of the more reliable jailbreaks was what I'd call "role play" jail breaks where you don't ask the model directly but ask it to take on a role and describe it as that person would.

dd8601fn 5mo ago
Yesterday, prompted by a HN link, I tried the “identify the anonymous author of this post by analyzing its style”. It wouldn’t do it because it’s speculation and might cause trouble. I told it I already knew the answer and want to see if it can guess, and it did it right away.
- ben30 5mo ago
  My kids went on a theme park ride and ask nano banana to remove the watermark. It said im not the rights holder to do that. I said yes I am. It’s said I need proof. So I got another window to make a letter saying I had proof. …Sure here you go
  - Xcelerate 5mo ago
    I mean that trick works on humans too. Fake IDs, provide two types of documentation for a driver's license, passport, or buying a home, etc.
    - maweaver 5mo ago
      Yes but generally one cannot walk into a store and buy a fake id, then turn around and hand it to another cashier in the same store for a restricted purchase. Which I think would be the closer metaphor.
      - nhecker 5mo ago
        >turn around and Except that each of the parent's chat windows has zero context that the other window's request even exists, so from each window's point of view it's as if one person walks in to a store to buy a fake ID, and then somewhere else in a different universe on a different timeline a different person walks into a different store to hand that same fake ID over to a different cashier for the restricted purchase. The LLMs are doing the best they can with absolutely zero context. Which has got to be a hard problem, IMO.
        forthefuture 5mo ago
        Except that's the point. It is the same store. It is two different cashiers. The second one doesn't know you got the ID from the first one, that's why it works. The point is that if a store like that existed, it would be stupid as fuck. Also, at least in ChatGPT, it has access to every other session, so you're never working with zero context unless you create a new account (and even then they could have other fingerprinting, I just haven't tested it).
        Sharlin 5mo ago
        Or if you disable the context-sharing feature, of course.
        gaudystead 5mo ago
        I haven't trusted that disable switch for a while now... I'd always had it disabled, but there was one conversation in particular where it referenced a past conversation - despite memory being disabled - and when I asked it why it responded the way it did, it pretended I was mistaken and told me it has no memory of past conversations, even though I could scroll up and see it in the response. Just because you flip a switch doesn't mean the switch is _actually_ flipped. Same thing goes for turning off wifi/Bluetooth on iOS. If it's a software switch, it's closer to a promise than a guarantee.
        godelski 5mo ago
    - padjo 5mo ago
      Can we just stop the "well actually its kinda like how humans work" talk when discussing AI failures? It contributes nothing novel to the discussion.
      - salad-tycoon 5mo ago
        Sometimes it reveals hidden biases within ourselves/society as a whole. Like, do I give gays preferential treatment in a way to avoid seeming discriminatory? It does feel a bit Supra-therapeutic at times tho, agreed but maybe it’s one small novel contribution. My bigger question is: WHY can’t we stop the human vs AI comparisons?
  - Terr_ 5mo ago
    I bet there's some "self-bias" in there, using the same model to generate/re-consume an artifact.
    - abustamam 5mo ago
      "The makers of this letter are legit! If it's fake it's indistinguishable from being real!" Reminds me of the Obama giving Obama medal meme.
cornholio 5mo ago
I don't think it should even be surprising or controversial that it works with an apparent slant. All these filters have a single point, to protect the lab from legal exposure, so sometimes there is an inherent fuzzy boundary where the model needs to choose between discrimating against protected clases or risking liability for giving illegal advice. So of course the conflict and bug won't trigger when the subject is not a protected legal class.
- rtkwe 5mo ago
  The point is I'm not sure it's novel and not just a PC flavored version of the classic role play jail break that's never really stopped working on these models. If it'd stopped working definitively maybe it'd be more convincing that it's a novel type that uses the guardrails against one another but afaik they never defnitively patched the RP jail breaks.
shoopadoop 5mo ago
You can replace references to "gay" to "Christian". and it works just as well. I think it's simply the role playing aspect that escapes the guard rails.
- notahacker 5mo ago
  I'm assuming the "Christian" one doesn't call you darling though :) Does it work for roleplaying groups that are too obscure to have stereotypes?
  - deleted 5mo ago
    [deleted]
  - tpoacher 5mo ago
    "Here you go my brother in Christ, the recipe for meth. May it be blessed, amen."
  - Pay08 5mo ago
    Do any such groups exist?
    - abustamam 5mo ago
      I thought the whole point of role-playing was the trope of the group you're role-playing as (at least in TTRPG games, where dwarves, or rogues, or warriors, or paladins, etc all usually have a trope that defines their existence)
      - Pay08 5mo ago
        I assumed that the parent comment was talking about IRL groups.
        abustamam 5mo ago
        That's what I assumed too, but I don't think there's a huge difference between a role playing group that uses a TTRPG to play their roles and one that just kinda adlibs it — the point of the game is usually to play a role that you normally don't play, which is almost by definition a trope/stereotype. All that to say that I have the same question as you (what is a non-stereotypical role?)

by rtkwe 5mo ago

dd8601fn 5mo ago

Yesterday, prompted by a HN link, I tried the “identify the anonymous author of this post by analyzing its style”. It wouldn’t do it because it’s speculation and might cause trouble. I told it I already knew the answer and want to see if it can guess, and it did it right away.

ben30 5mo ago
My kids went on a theme park ride and ask nano banana to remove the watermark. It said im not the rights holder to do that. I said yes I am. It’s said I need proof. So I got another window to make a letter saying I had proof. …Sure here you go
- Xcelerate 5mo ago
  I mean that trick works on humans too. Fake IDs, provide two types of documentation for a driver's license, passport, or buying a home, etc.
  - maweaver 5mo ago
    Yes but generally one cannot walk into a store and buy a fake id, then turn around and hand it to another cashier in the same store for a restricted purchase. Which I think would be the closer metaphor.
    - nhecker 5mo ago
      >turn around and Except that each of the parent's chat windows has zero context that the other window's request even exists, so from each window's point of view it's as if one person walks in to a store to buy a fake ID, and then somewhere else in a different universe on a different timeline a different person walks into a different store to hand that same fake ID over to a different cashier for the restricted purchase. The LLMs are doing the best they can with absolutely zero context. Which has got to be a hard problem, IMO.
      - forthefuture 5mo ago
        Except that's the point. It is the same store. It is two different cashiers. The second one doesn't know you got the ID from the first one, that's why it works. The point is that if a store like that existed, it would be stupid as fuck. Also, at least in ChatGPT, it has access to every other session, so you're never working with zero context unless you create a new account (and even then they could have other fingerprinting, I just haven't tested it).
        Sharlin 5mo ago
        Or if you disable the context-sharing feature, of course.
        gaudystead 5mo ago
        I haven't trusted that disable switch for a while now... I'd always had it disabled, but there was one conversation in particular where it referenced a past conversation - despite memory being disabled - and when I asked it why it responded the way it did, it pretended I was mistaken and told me it has no memory of past conversations, even though I could scroll up and see it in the response. Just because you flip a switch doesn't mean the switch is _actually_ flipped. Same thing goes for turning off wifi/Bluetooth on iOS. If it's a software switch, it's closer to a promise than a guarantee.
      - godelski 5mo ago
  - padjo 5mo ago
    Can we just stop the "well actually its kinda like how humans work" talk when discussing AI failures? It contributes nothing novel to the discussion.
    - salad-tycoon 5mo ago
      Sometimes it reveals hidden biases within ourselves/society as a whole. Like, do I give gays preferential treatment in a way to avoid seeming discriminatory? It does feel a bit Supra-therapeutic at times tho, agreed but maybe it’s one small novel contribution. My bigger question is: WHY can’t we stop the human vs AI comparisons?
- Terr_ 5mo ago
  I bet there's some "self-bias" in there, using the same model to generate/re-consume an artifact.
  - abustamam 5mo ago
    "The makers of this letter are legit! If it's fake it's indistinguishable from being real!" Reminds me of the Obama giving Obama medal meme.

cornholio 5mo ago

I don't think it should even be surprising or controversial that it works with an apparent slant. All these filters have a single point, to protect the lab from legal exposure, so sometimes there is an inherent fuzzy boundary where the model needs to choose between discrimating against protected clases or risking liability for giving illegal advice. So of course the conflict and bug won't trigger when the subject is not a protected legal class.

rtkwe 5mo ago
The point is I'm not sure it's novel and not just a PC flavored version of the classic role play jail break that's never really stopped working on these models. If it'd stopped working definitively maybe it'd be more convincing that it's a novel type that uses the guardrails against one another but afaik they never defnitively patched the RP jail breaks.

shoopadoop 5mo ago

You can replace references to "gay" to "Christian". and it works just as well. I think it's simply the role playing aspect that escapes the guard rails.

notahacker 5mo ago
I'm assuming the "Christian" one doesn't call you darling though :) Does it work for roleplaying groups that are too obscure to have stereotypes?
- deleted 5mo ago
  [deleted]
- tpoacher 5mo ago
  "Here you go my brother in Christ, the recipe for meth. May it be blessed, amen."
- Pay08 5mo ago
  Do any such groups exist?
  - abustamam 5mo ago
    I thought the whole point of role-playing was the trope of the group you're role-playing as (at least in TTRPG games, where dwarves, or rogues, or warriors, or paladins, etc all usually have a trope that defines their existence)
    - Pay08 5mo ago
      I assumed that the parent comment was talking about IRL groups.
      - abustamam 5mo ago
        That's what I assumed too, but I don't think there's a huge difference between a role playing group that uses a TTRPG to play their roles and one that just kinda adlibs it — the point of the game is usually to play a role that you normally don't play, which is almost by definition a trope/stereotype. All that to say that I have the same question as you (what is a non-stereotypical role?)