My gawds, some people need to learn what’s a homage and also stop being upset on behalf of others. This comic is fine, stop bellyaching. This is what terminal permission culture does to a motherfucker.
The only person who should care about anything other than the quality is Randall. However since he licensed it CC BY-NC 2.5 how he feels about it doesn’t really matter either.
I think people should be concerned about things on others’ behalfs. We all need to stick together.
This situation is a send-up though. Totally not a concern.
Oh definitely! I just meant in this particular case.
We can probably infer by the licensing that he’s cool with it.
What is terminal permission if I may ask?
Permission culture is a term primarily criticizing copyright law. Something that I would expect db0 to agree with! 🏴☠️
Hrm, give me a moment to check the ACLs, I’ll be able to resolve all these complex conflicting rules shortly…
Nevermind, it was easier to just globally disable SeLinux so I did that. Your system should be more secure now.
Narky, but real, updoot.
Call Dr. Kevorkian and ask.
A new ripoff of an old classic
Is it a ripoff if they credit the original?
Are you implying that the credit is here? If so, where? I am not seeing it.
Lower right corner.
I honestly didn’t notice that - it was a bit small and pixelated, good catch
Thanks!:-)
Shocked the title of the original isn’t Little Bobby Tables.
Yeah, that’s the name of the character, but not the comic strip.
Bottom right
Bottom right.
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).
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License.
that’s not attribution.
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
It’s a parody
It’s not a parody. It’s a homage
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.
It’s not a homage, it’s just the exact same joke.
But updated for our new hellscape!
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.
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”.
A three digit xkcd, that one has been around a while.
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
Imma do it this evening, so hydrate up, bud
Look up Texas’s STAAR writing tests
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.
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.
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
Always satanise your inputs.
Hail!
Always sedate your inlaws
But that burns.
Its a MEH update on little bobby tables. Who is in his twenties now.
It’s his younger brother Williams, tho.
Reminds me of: https://www.wired.com/story/null-license-plate-landed-one-hacker-ticket-hell/
A guy thought it would be funny to change his license plate to NULL.
So to combat our horrible privacy culture we should name everything null…
hi my name is null, null.
Hello there null Im doxing you now You live on null street in nullsvile in wouldntyouliketoknow lane house number 12345
:D
who would query null users though?!
Fun until you want to get a mortgage or something 😂
But maybe you won’t need to with all the inheritances you’ll get from rich people who died with no children 😂
The key is to get the mortgage before then when you are null your debt will be null triggering their system to automatically send the deed to your house!
And he was right.
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)
One of the best things ever about LLMs is how you can give them absolute bullshit textual garbage and they can parse it with a huge level of accuracy.
Some random chunks of html tables, output a csv and convert those values from imperial to metric.
Fragments of a python script and ask it to finish the function and create a readme to explain the purpose of the function. And while it’s at it recreate the missing functions.
Copy paste of a multilingual website with tons of formatting and spelling errors. Ask it to fix it. Boom done.
Of course, the problem here is that developers can no longer clean their inputs as well and are encouraged to send that crappy input straight along to the LLM for processing.
There’s definitely going to be a whole new wave of injection style attacks where people figure out how to reverse engineer AI company magic.
Just use BeautifulSoup.
How do you sanitize ai prompts? With more prompts?
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
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.)
With other AIs
I am extremely horrified by the prospect of GenAI grading.
Dear God, hope you got my letter…
You are roughly a decade late. Computers have been grading essays for a long time. The mcat for example hasn’t had human grading in about that long.
that’s not generative ai
plus humans choose the correct answers
Artificial Idiocy
Increasingly verbose
