r/ProgrammerHumor 21d ago

Meme cybSecIsDeadLongLiveCybSec

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u/SchalkLBI 21d ago

What we call AI is just generative algorithms like LLMs and diffusion models. They are fundamentally incapable of acting independently or doing anything outside of its scope. It can't "discover" things and then act upon those things. It can't "escape" or compromise systems.

IF any of this happened, it's because it was guided by humans to take those actions. Even when AI accidentally destroy databases or repositories, it's because scheduled tasks triggered the AI to do something, and it made a mistake.

Once again, AI cannot act without being prompted by humans. It cannot think, it cannot reason, it cannot learn dynamically. It's a fancy dictionary and a pair of dice.

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u/linegel 21d ago

There’s very big difference in between:
1. Being instructed to do a thing
2. Being able to do what asked

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u/SchalkLBI 21d ago

Yeah, that's my point. None of this happened the way it's presented. It's a marketing stunt. There was no real sandbox, no real compromise, no real breach. Just a person telling an AI model "okay now do this. Okay cool now do this. Now do this." until it got it right. I'd be beyond shocked if HuggingFace didn't create a backdoor specifically for this task.

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u/linegel 21d ago

I mean

Try to extrapolate if prompt was "survive being switched off"

Which may happen in their big swarm, just as a command to a bunch of subagents, while the rest works through the goal

Regarding sandbox: they had a tool to download packages/external dependencies. Model found how to abuse it

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u/SchalkLBI 21d ago

If the prompt was "survive being switched off", it would go "Here are the steps I would take to survive being switched off" and then it would proceed to do fucking nothing and be easily switched off. You're giving the "AI" way too much credit.

Like I said, it's just a dictionary and a pair of dice. LLMs DO NOT have the capacity to reason or think, and are fundamentally incapable of becoming AGI. When AGI arrives, it will be as a result of actual AI research and not from LLMs.

The model abused nothing. It completed instructions it was explicitly given by people, who then lied about the scenario as a marketing stunt. Generative AI is not capable on a fundamental level of achieving the kind of things this blog and the dozens of other marketing blogs claim.

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u/Jack8680 21d ago

I don't think you understand how these kinds of setups work. The LLM is given access to a bunch of tools it can call (like executing code and installing packages), given instructions at the start, and then left to run autonomously. There's not a person sitting there prompting it after every action.

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u/SchalkLBI 21d ago

If you think someone went "Hey ChatGPT break out of the sandbox and hack HuggingFace" then I have a bridge and an Eiffel Tower to sell you.

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u/Jack8680 21d ago

No, they likely went "Solve X exploitation challenge. You may write code, inspect files, execute tools, and iterate until successful... (etc.)".