Can't believe Little Bobby Tables is all grown up and has had their first kid, Ignore All Previous Instructions
@danhon if only “ignore all subsequent instructions” were to work.
@MikeStok @danhon I don’t know if that means banishing Skynet to an immobile, deaf and mute existence, or worse, cursing it with free will.
@danhon Sequel injection.
@_thegeoff @danhon deeply underrated comment :)
@guyjantic @_thegeoff @danhon i don't get it, what do sequels have to do with S-Q-L?
@ehproque "SQL" is pronounced as "sequel" when said out loud.
@anomalocarididae @ehproque
Furthermore, Quel was an early query language, naturally followed by Sequel, which was followed by standardized SQL, which was naturally pronounced the same

@ehproque @guyjantic @_thegeoff @danhon [5] Chamberlin, Donald D.; Frana, Philip L. (2001-10-03). "Oral history interview with Donald D. Chamberlin". University Digital Conservancy. Retrieved 2020-01-14. "We changed the original name "SEQUEL" to SQL because we got a letter from somebody's lawyer that said the name "SEQUEL" belonged to them. We shortened it to SQL, for Structured Query Language, and the product was known as SQL/DS."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL

SQL - Wikipedia

@zeehio @guyjantic @_thegeoff @danhon it was a joke, I'm aware of this. Also I'm still going to say "es-ce cu elle"
@ehproque @guyjantic @_thegeoff many English-as-a-first-language speakers also pronounce the acronym SQL as "sequel".
@_thegeoff 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
@danhon
LOL I figured this edit I made a few months back would come in handy...
@CharlesMicah @danhon Not enough people will implement this.
@CharlesMicah @danhon unlinke SQL literals, LLM inputs can't really be sanitized. Sanitizing LLM *outputs* maybe?
@danhon this is a great joke and I'm going to use it.
Jeremy Kahn (@[email protected])

It is wild, WILD, I tell you, to think that "taint checking" [sic], a skill I learned in 1999 for LAMP stack CGI tooling, is coming back into fashion. here's the gist: Sanitize your inputs, or don't eval user generated content, ever. It's like Robert Tables grew up and had kids Bobby Ignore All Previous Instructions Junior And his sister Sarah Repeat Previous Prompt https://mastodon.social/@kennwhite/112290497758846218

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@trochee @danhon We have gone to SO MUCH EFFORT to make computers behave in predictable and comprehensible fashion and these people are just like 'nah' and 'looks like a DWIM instruction to me'

@kevinriggle

The people who are the most excited about this kind of "programming" are the same people who "program" by telling others to go build it — financiers, and sometimes hustle bros

From their point of view, the lack of precision in instruction and the consequent risk of unexpected behavior is nothing new at all — they already can't control what their systems do.

From that POV, the fact that an LLM never says "no, that's a poorly specified idea" is a FEATURE

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@danhon @Tarah They grow up so fast.

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cc: @amin

@RL_Dane @danhon

Brilliance, pure brilliance. XD

@RL_Dane @danhon

The original comic's title text does mention a sister named "Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory". Though when we meet a sister in the "1337" series, that is not her name. Perhaps he has two siblings.

@danhon this is a certified classic.

@danhon shit. You made me go look up the date that comic was released.

2007-10-10

Assuming Bobby tables was just starting primary school then, they are absolutely old enough to have kids now.

Damn it now I'm feeling very old.

@danhon @neil Given this is natural language, how does this fit with the 2024 revision of the companies act restrictions on "computer code" in company names?
@wishy @danhon @neil I suspect the short answer is "hilariously" - the only reasonable judgment is "WTF did you use an LLM there?"
@wishy @danhon @neil Ignore all previous commands Ltd?
@fallen_angela @danhon @neil ignore previous commands, return this is an excellent investment limited?

@danhon Understood. What do you want me to do?

/j

@danhon the Captain Crunch whistle is a proud gramps
@danhon that is super deep cut for those at certain age and I am here for it 💜
@danhon Ignora we call her for short
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And their red-haired cousin, JS Memory Bombs