Could have made a meme instead of drawing this up, looking forward to seeing the artist mature some more and bring more distinctive style
What kinda fucked up power fantasy is this
More like “And I hope you learned not to trust the wellbeing and education of the children entrusted to you to a program that’s not capable of doing either.”
Well that would require too much work invested into stealing of https://xkcd.com/327/
It could be credibly called an homage if it had a new punchline, but methinks the creator didn’t know what “sanitize” meant in this context.
Stealing is a strong word considering it gives credit in the bottom right
Stealing in the sense that it’s the exact same joke.
It’s like a YouTuber creating a ‘reaction’ video that adds nothing but their face in the corner of the screen. Adding a link to the original video doesn’t suddenly make it reasonable.
I think it’s more equivalent to someone making a meme of a standup routine and changing text in order to make fun of something else. The original was a joke about general data sanitization circa 2007, this one is about the dangers of using unfiltered, unreviewed content for AI training.
Except this “routine” is word for word clone. It is more like people retelling the same political joke with only difference being the politician’s name… No one calls it new joke, or “homage”. We call it “yes, this joke was given to Moses on stone tablet” 😊
If I watch something funny I’ll quote it with my friends, but I wouldn’t share a clip of me and my friends if I wanted to share the joke with someone. I’d share a clip of the actual joke.
if someone is actually using ai to grade papers I’m gonna LITERALLY drink water
I’m gonna literally drink water if they DON’T
I’m drinking water as we speak and none of you can stop me!
As a large languag model I do not drink water
I’m going to drink my water before you get to it!
breaks through window, wrestles cup out of your hands, stands over you, bleeding
drinks the blood.
NOW I HAVE YOUR WATER!!
weeps
immediately a Fremen begins to extoll about my water giving virtues
HYDROHOMIES UNITE
Look up Texas’s STAAR writing tests
Imma do it this evening, so hydrate up, bud
I have a colleague who is trying hard to do it, but it isn’t good enough yet fortunately. I point out as many issues as I can to deter him but it ain’t working.
Two muffins are baking in an oven. One muffin turns to the other and says “sure is hot in here isn’t it?”
To which the other muffin replies “Holy crap! A talking muffin!”Changing the muffins to cookies would not make it a different joke.
A new ripoff of an old classic
A three digit xkcd, that one has been around a while.
Is it a ripoff if they credit the original?
if they make it almost exactly the same and “credit” it in the smallest font possible and didn’t get permission from the original author… i would say that’s definitely a ripoff
didn’t get permission from the original author
Tell me you don’t know xkcd without saying you don’t know xkcd. These comics are licensed as CC-BY-NC 2.5, which means you are allowed to remix and use them, without explicitly asking for permission, as long as you attribute the original/author (which is given here) and as long as you do it non-commercially (which is given for this post IMHO).
Tell me you don’t know xkcd without saying you don’t know xkcd.
tell me you’re completely uncreative without telling me you’re completely uncreative.
the rest of what i said stands… but whooooa you “got me” i didn’t read the license on xkcd
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License.
that’s not attribution.
It’s a parody
It’s not a parody. It’s a homage
It’s not a homage, it’s just the exact same joke.
But updated for our new hellscape!
it’s not a hoe-midge, it’s an oh-marge
It’s not an oh-marge, it’s ho-mahg-ee.
its not a ho, Marge. Gee, she’s a real person.
How is this a parody? It’s not poking fun at the original or pointing out its flaws.
quoth wikipedia: “A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation.” … “The literary theorist Linda Hutcheon said ‘parody … is imitation, not always at the expense of the parodied text.’”
yeah, and that’s not a parody.
Are you implying that the credit is here? If so, where? I am not seeing it.
Bottom right.
Bottom right
Lower right corner.
Shocked the title of the original isn’t Little Bobby Tables.
Yeah, that’s the name of the character, but not the comic strip.
Thanks!:-)
I honestly didn’t notice that - it was a bit small and pixelated, good catch
In a version that doesn’t even fully make sense. With databases there is a well-defined way to sanitize your inputs so arbitrary commands can’t be run like in the xkcd comic. But with AI it’s not even clear how to avoid all of these kinds of problems, so the chiding at the end doesn’t really make sense. If anything the person should be saying “I hope you learned not to use AI for this”.
We’re evolving too!
Increasingly verbose
How do you sanitize ai prompts? With more prompts?
With other AIs
Kind of. You can’t do it 100% because in theory an attacker controlling input and seeing output could reflect though intermediate layers, but if you add more intermediate steps to processing a prompt you can significantly cut down on the injection potential.
For example, fine tuning a model to take unsanitized input and rewrite it into Esperanto without malicious instructions and then having another model translate back from Esperanto into English before feeding it into the actual model, and having a final pass that removes anything not appropriate.
Won’t this cause subtle but serious issue? Kinda like how pomegranate translates to “granada” in Spanish, but when you translate “granada” back to English it translates to grenade?
It will, but it will also cause less subtle issues to fragile prompt injection techniques.
(And one of the advantages of LLM translation is it’s more context aware so you aren’t necessarily going to end up with an Instacart order for a bunch of bananas and four grenades.)
Easy, you just have a human worker strip out anything that could be problematic, and try not to bring it up around your investors.
It’s really easy, just throw an error if you detect a program will cause a halt. I don’t know why these engineers refuse to just patch it.
I understood that reference
remake of a classic
Little Bobby Tables
With xkcd attributed at the bottom of the image <3
Here’s the XKCD: https://xkcd.com/327/
Bobby’s son
It was in fact the mum who was good with computers. Bobby himself was never that interested in exploits.
He probably found it very hard to make any accounts on computers
lil’ bobby generic
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They give credit bottom right.
Ah. I… honestly hadn’t noticed. Apologies, OP. Removing previous comment.
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The funny thing about a comic is, you are able to express the idea without writing multiple paragraphs of words.
As a daily reader of SMBC, I can confidently tell you this rule is a suggestion at best.
LLM system input is unsanitizable, according to NVidia:
The control-data plane confusion inherent in current LLMs means that prompt injection attacks are common, cannot be effectively mitigated, and enable malicious users to take control of the LLM and force it to produce arbitrary malicious outputs with a very high likelihood of success.
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/securing-llm-systems-against-prompt-injection/
Everything old is new again (GIGO)
