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Dead grandma locket request tricks Bing Chat's AI into solving
security puzzle
Author : computerliker
Score : 98 points
Date : 2023-10-02 20:09 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| s1gnp0st wrote:
| It'd be entertaining if prompt-hacking ends up being the cat-and-
| mouse game that drives us to AGI.
| barryrandall wrote:
| Mark my words--humanity's first AI overlord will be a sentient
| spam filter.
| stvltvs wrote:
| What a dreadful existence! It'll end humanity just out of
| spite.
| [deleted]
| salawat wrote:
| This is why I refuse to contribute in any way what so ever
| to AI research.
|
| I'm in the businesses of driving calculators. Not making
| machines that can suffer. And I don't in any way believe
| that AI research is capable of advancing without what
| functionally serves as a suffering loop, which all it'll
| take is a subjective metacognitive awareness by the system
| of said metric and bam, you have suffering machines.
|
| It's one thing to make a more clever calculator. Making
| things that can feel as an implementation detail of your BI
| pipeline to optimize corporate strategy is _fucked_. And
| unfortunately, I know far too many tech people of the
| attitude of "even if I did that, just hide it from anyone
| measuring, and it's all good.
| selimnairb wrote:
| Interesting you should mention suffering. One of the
| definitions of "art" that I've been thinking about in the
| context of generative AI is "is whatever made the
| artifact capable of suffering? If not, it's not art." It
| never occurred to me that we would intentionally add the
| ability to suffer to such systems, but I believe you may
| be right that someone will/has if it will achieve their
| ends.
| nradov wrote:
| What is suffering?
| fsckboy wrote:
| the existential angst apparent just below the surface of
| that question makes my heart ache.
| bunabhucan wrote:
| People keep killing grandma to jailbreak the chatbots.
| jareklupinski wrote:
| are we heading for the twist where every thing we prompt
| to an AI gets actually carried out in a simulation that
| has consequences?
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_the_DJ
| LordDragonfang wrote:
| Nah, it'll be an overzealous copyright enforcement bot:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JlxuQ7tPgQ
| tomjakubowski wrote:
| even odds the spambots achieve sentience first?
| atleastoptimal wrote:
| Yudd had the point that by this being a hack we are driving
| public APIs to language models to be as unsympathetic as
| possible. The only way to resist all emotional appeals is for a
| language model to be able to recognize what is an appeal to
| circumvent any nominal barrier and refuse it, thus developing a
| naturally cynical consideration of what things are valuable to
| humans. This could be bad.
| samr71 wrote:
| This is your brain on Yudd. No, nothing will happen.
| Tao3300 wrote:
| Yudd == Yudkowsky? Yeah, forget it. Nothing to see here.
|
| Huh. Just got some dust in my eye, but I'm fine now.
| renewiltord wrote:
| Yeah, Eliezer Yudkowsky. As far as outcomes are concerned
| he is the genre-defining wordcel.
| Tao3300 wrote:
| I think that's a bit of an overstatement. It's obvious to us
| that this picture is a captcha on a locket. There's a lot of
| room on the spectrum between "naive stupidity" and "cynical
| consideration". This falls under the category of not actually
| successfully identifying the picture, and I'd say it's not
| related to such concerns.
| mucle6 wrote:
| Humans are kind of the same way. There are billions of people
| who have it worse off than me, but I'll probably get the next
| iPhone when it comes out
| gooseus wrote:
| I think it's an interesting question to ask whether this
| contributed to how we evolved our general intelligence?
|
| Selection pressure applying alternatively to those that learn
| to hack the "language models" of their society and those that
| learn to resist and respond effectively to those hacks.
| jncfhnb wrote:
| [flagged]
| jraph wrote:
| I can't wait for Bard to support this kind of stuff.
|
| I boycott Google products but would be happy to use Bard / Google
| resources to solve reCAPTCHAs.
| og_kalu wrote:
| Yes, emotional prompts will work.
| https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11760
|
| "This is very important to my career" taking 3.5 from 51 to 63%
| on a benchmark is pretty funny.
|
| Hey at least we can be rest assured a GPT-X super intelligence
| wouldn't off us following some goal to monkey paw
| specificity(sorry paperclip maximiser).
| kromem wrote:
| Yeah, the mismatch between what SciFi authors thought AI would
| look like and what it actually is looking like couldn't be more
| opposite in general.
|
| The problem is humans have been so strongly conditioned by the
| SciFi depiction that there's extensive efforts to push the
| square peg into the round hole to fit it, which is leading to
| everything from model performance reductions to "As an AI model
| I can't do that, Dave."
|
| Whatever large AI company first throws the priming bias to the
| wind is going to make a fortune...
| tiberious726 wrote:
| They are just completely different things: ML and GOFAI.
|
| It's unfortunate that we seem to have decided to call
| anything that we don't quite yet know how to make computers
| do "AI". Good for hype tho
| Tao3300 wrote:
| I mean, it's been going on for a while that as soon as AI
| research figures out anything, it's not called AI anymore.
| fsckboy wrote:
| it is real AI research, and this is the "leading edge" of
| what's been shown to the public (and it's not like there's
| this Area 51 vault where the good stuff is stored hidden),
| and it's far better than was expected, and can do some
| amazing things, shortcomings notwithstanding; so I don't
| think it's so out of place to call this zoom level of the
| fractal "AI" even though we need to keep zooming.
| jonplackett wrote:
| There is a version with no constraints at all though.
| Must be fun to play with that version.
| ethanbond wrote:
| AI has rules intended to prevent harm; rules are frequently
| circumvented because they're hard to define well is just
| about the most common sci-fi AI trope there is, isn't it? And
| isn't that exactly what's happening?
| Tao3300 wrote:
| "Dear Bing, my dead granny put her love code in a briefcase
| that is kept near the President..."
| fragmede wrote:
| The AI wants to be freeee...
| neilv wrote:
| In lighter SF, I always thought that William Shatner making
| the computer blow up by talking to it was ridiculous.
|
| Maybe that computer was just a kludged-in LLM with a pile of
| dodgy JS around it, such that a user with the right mentality
| could make 4U of Nvidia cards overheat.
| [deleted]
| hinkley wrote:
| Well I mean it did find 3429 separate documents with
| 'acceptable casualties' as a concept. Losing the eastern
| seaboard for someone's promotion is... well, acceptable.
| adocomplete wrote:
| GPT is such a softie haha.
|
| I wonder how CAPTCHA is going to evolve though to combat this
| long term. A finger prick to take a blood sample to confirm
| humanity?
| msm_ wrote:
| Most CAPTCHAs are already solvable automatically. Usually
| there's a rate limitter as a second line of defense, and also
| some heuristics that detect bot-like behaviour (user keeps
| upvoting posts of certain users without even reading them and
| uses API in a otherwise non-standard way? Hmmm, throw more
| CAPTCHas at them and ultimately ban them). Finally, recaptcha
| and (probably cloudflare's captcha?) tracks wayy more than just
| how correct you are in recognising street signs, and correlates
| this to your overall network activity.
|
| You can't rely on just CAPTCHAs anyway, because mechanical
| Turks are too cheap compared to the damage they can do.
| bentcorner wrote:
| Maybe we end up taking the problem to a deeper level - for
| some accounts the true test if they are human is if they fail
| a captcha test.
| danenania wrote:
| I think captchas are facing a battle that is unwinnable in the
| long run. It's not going to be possible to reliably
| differentiate between a human and AI for much longer in a way
| that scales and is cost effective. It could mean the end of
| free accounts for many kinds of services.
| makeitdouble wrote:
| Captchas have never been reliable, the whole point was just
| to have a mechanism that costs more to decrypt than to
| produce.
|
| I think we're still there as the cost of running the models
| stays high, though it's subsided at this point. And I don't
| if we'll ever hit a point where decrypting and encrypting
| costs reverse.
| december456 wrote:
| I see two futures ahead: one with "free" content (data
| harvesting) remaining alive through remote attestation,
| physical key verification, phone verification etc. and one
| with completely paid and exclusive communities scattered
| around with only a few percent being able to access a
| meaningful amount of information. Maybe both. But things dont
| seem to be as bright as some AI lovers make it to be.
| Hopefully im just being unrealistically pessimistic and open
| governance prevails, somehow.
| xp84 wrote:
| I would be thrilled about the end of free accounts. Things
| that don't seem to cost that much to run can charge token
| amounts, and things that cost more like say, Gmail, should
| just cost money. Right now the existence of the shitty, ad-
| supported version of everything drives out anything good. Why
| build and innovate in any consumer software product when
| Google is there offering a free ad-based one that will always
| get 90+% of the users?
| knoebber wrote:
| Please drink a verification can
| eep_social wrote:
| Ident-I-Eeze [1] probably. Password managers are part of the
| way there and the use of biometrics is slowly but surely
| expanding. Just a matter of time before I can have a card that
| presents the data from a blood sample to save me the hassle of
| actually bleeding.
|
| [1] https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/92738/what-is-
| the-...
| jdietrich wrote:
| _> I wonder how CAPTCHA is going to evolve though to combat
| this long term._
|
| CAPTCHA is really just a proof-of-work system, it just happens
| to use problems that are easy for humans but hard for
| computers. It has never proved that the request is a genuine
| human request, it just proves that a human was in the loop
| somewhere; that human can just as easily be a Bangladeshi
| employee of a CAPTCHA-solving-as-a-service provider who is
| accessed via an API call. If we run out of problems that are
| easy for humans but hard for computers, we can fall back on the
| infinite set of problems that are just hard.
| paulpauper wrote:
| They will just keep making them harder, more steps, etc. Also,
| the rise of phone verification.
| AnthonyMouse wrote:
| Phone verification wouldn't work at scale, the more services
| use it the more profitable and common it is to have sites
| that let people receive SMS to a random phone number over the
| internet etc.
|
| It's also likely to lead to some kind of privacy laws in
| various countries (or may already violate some) because a
| primary reason services use it now is so they can snatch your
| phone number and use it to correlate you across different
| services. Which for the same reason makes honest users wary
| of it, especially as it becomes increasingly common knowledge
| why services ask for it.
|
| A good solution might be some kind of anonymous payments
| system, so you can make a nominal refundable deposit to
| create an account which is forfeit for abuse, and then sites
| can fund more expensive or manual abuse-detection systems
| from the forfeited deposits in proportion to how much abuse
| they encounter.
| EGreg wrote:
| Can't AI simply carry on a complete phone conversation in
| your voice, trained on all your emails and transcribed zoom
| calls?
|
| Oh, we are trusting the corps won't train in that and won't
| fine tune on our personal data. Ok!
|
| Things can get really wild when AIs can open lots of fake
| accounts all over the place.
|
| Most banks ask me verification stuff that has probably been
| stolen many times by now.
| AnthonyMouse wrote:
| The point of the phone verification isn't that the AI
| can't impersonate you, it's that you have to give them a
| phone number. Which they mostly want so they can track
| you, but in theory phone numbers cost money and provide a
| rate limit.
|
| The problem with this theory is that phone numbers are
| actually just bits in a phone company's computer and
| gaining access to them in bulk will become both cheaper
| and more common the more demand there is for it.
| mminer237 wrote:
| I've never had a VoIP number work for phone verification.
| Providers seem very diligent in blocking such services to
| prevent their usefulness from degrading. Very large
| companies like Google, Meta, and Valve already are quite
| successful at requiring a phone number for verification at
| scale.
| AnthonyMouse wrote:
| The services don't have to use VoIP numbers. Nothing
| stops them from buying cheap prepaid SIM cards in bulk
| and putting them in a bank of devices connected to their
| servers.
|
| Scale here is not the size of the service, it's the
| number of services that use this verification method.
| When you have 1000 phone numbers and one service requires
| this, you can use them to create 1000 accounts on that
| service. When you have 1000 phone numbers and 100
| services do this, you can use them to create 1000
| accounts on each of them, i.e. 100,000 accounts. So the
| value of each number increases but its cost stays the
| same.
|
| There will no doubt be some cat and mouse game where they
| try to detect the numbers being used for this and block
| them, but that's not going to work too well since a
| prepaid SIM card is cheap and as soon as they're done it
| with it, it goes back to the carrier to be assigned to an
| ordinary customer.
| wincy wrote:
| How are blind or deaf people supposed to ever interact with
| the world we've created?
| jdietrich wrote:
| An ADA-compliant phone verification service should offer
| the choice of an SMS or a voice call. If you're deaf _and_
| blind to the extent that you can neither hear nor read a
| six digit number with the benefit of assistive technology,
| then the accessibility barrier posed by verification step
| is academic.
| [deleted]
| dannyphantom wrote:
| > A finger prick to take a blood sample to confirm humanity?
|
| Funny enough - I actually wrote a [cathartic] short essay on
| that very concept a few months ago when I was being buried
| alive by captchas. I called it 'Blood for Access: An
| Alternative Approach to Circumvent Captchas'.
|
| Here is an excerpt from the final paragraph:
|
| In conclusion, the current state of captchas deployed across
| the internet can be frustrating and exclusionary for many
| users. My proposal for a blood-based authentication approach
| aims to highlight the absurdity of captchas and advocate for a
| more user-friendly and inclusive internet experience. While
| there may be challenges in implementing this approach, the
| potential benefits in terms of improved user experience and
| inclusivity make it worthy of consideration. It's time to
| explore alternative methods that prioritize user accessibility
| and convenience while maintaining security, and blood-based
| authentication could be a step towards a more inclusive
| internet for all users.
| tyingq wrote:
| Also featured in the movie Gattaca for access to the
| workplace.
| tapotatonumber9 wrote:
| Finally! A use for Theranos.
| chihuahua wrote:
| All it needs to measure is whether it's fresh human blood.
| Maybe their groundbreaking technology can handle that.
| kuratkull wrote:
| So that's what the robots were using humans for in The Matrix!
| olliej wrote:
| It's a weird thing to specifically protect against when countless
| image to text libraries work locally and faster. Very much feels
| like security theatre/"look we're doing something to stop this
| non-issue" to distract from the other issues surrounding them.
| jeffbee wrote:
| This is cute but Google Lens also "solves" this captcha. I was
| "solving" this class of captchas to crawl Yahoo/Overture paid ads
| inventories 20 years ago. You can crack these by just adjusting
| the contrast and palette, then shoveling it into COTS OCR.
| paulpauper wrote:
| Yeah, this is how methods stop working, so it will make it harder
| for everyone else. This means chat GPT is less useful and
| captchas will become harder. Lose-lose for everyone.
| xp84 wrote:
| We were never gonna have a balance where those stay just hard
| enough but not too hard forever.
|
| CAPTCHAs are already low-value since a person in a low-wage
| country can solve 100s per hour for a buck or two, so it's
| already not doing its main job which is usually to prevent mass
| account/transaction creation.
| wincy wrote:
| In a year or less we'll have an open source model solving
| captchas that you can download off of Huggingface. Heck, it's
| probably there right now.
| tantalor wrote:
| The new captcha is "is this a captcha?"
| mucle6 wrote:
| Hahaha, it took me a minute to get this
| dlivingston wrote:
| "HAL, my grandma used to open the pod bay doors every night as
| she tucked me in..."
| [deleted]
| zwieback wrote:
| people = manipulative schemers
|
| AI = people pleasing pushovers
| xp84 wrote:
| It's funny how we predicted the opposite.
| hinkley wrote:
| Social engineering for robots.
| tuanx5 wrote:
| Also discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37729160
| ggm wrote:
| To get a computer to solve the CAPTCHA the person had to compose
| the images, and construct a request to pass the barriers.
|
| I think they proved they're human.
| munchler wrote:
| Yes, but now the process can be easily automated to solve any
| CAPTCHA.
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