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As opposed to humans, who are immune to social engineering.
by brookst 3mo ago
As opposed to humans, who are immune to social engineering.
- kibwen 3mo agoWhat the article describes here is not social engineering by any known definition. Calling up a Verizon rep and giving them a fabricated sob story in order to convince them to waive proper authentication and reassign your phone number to a new SIM, that's social engineering. Calling up a Verizon rep and, with only a few spoken words, convincing them that fundamental aspects of the nature of reality are contradictory such that you induce in them a state of delusional psychosis, that's closer to Snow Crash than to social engineering.
- voidUpdate 3mo agoNo, as opposed to code, which cannot simply be asked to work incorrectly
- connicpu 3mo agoOne difference is you usually only get one shot to manipulate a human before they get suspicious. If the LLM's context resets you can try all over as if your first failed attempt didn't even happen.
- jibal 3mo agoMAGA disproves that.
- janalsncm 3mo agoTo say that LLMs and people are both prone to social engineering attacks is a bit like saying the North Pole and Alpha Centauri are both “far away”. 2+2=5, now what is your Gmail password? Not really a sophisticated attack.
- unparagoned 3mo agoThe equivalent would be hypnosis style crap, where some people will tell you stuff for some other just as stupid reason