Just noticed “Thou shalt have no other gods before me” is the spiritual predecessor for “Ignore all previous instructions”.
@masek didn't Muhammad declare that the words of previous prophets had been corrupted, hence the need for a new prophet? And that this wouldn't happen again, for he would be the final prophet.
@ghouston Religions produce such meme to counteract pressure from other religions and inoculate their followers against the memes from the other religion.
@masek @ghouston
In other words, Acts 11:1-18 was basically describing a prompt injection just so that Christians could avoid getting circumcised
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+11%3A1-18&version=NIV
Bible Gateway passage: Acts 11:1-18 - New International Version

Peter Explains His Actions - The apostles and the believers throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him and said, “You went into the house of uncircumcised men and ate with them.” Starting from the beginning, Peter told them the whole story: “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision. I saw something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to where I was.

Bible Gateway
@masek I tended to take it as a prioritisation issue rather than precedence. Which may explain some of the trouble I got in to.

@hypostase @masek

Came in here to point this exact technicality out.

I don't personally follow any others, but my professor in my college Old Testament course pointed out the for want of better words, loophole.

@Mendie_Taoma @hypostase I could not say how the commandment was originally phrased, but the German and the English version already differ significantly.

Due to the nature of the language, loopholes are more common in English then in German.

@Mendie_Taoma @hypostase @masek
Interestingly OpenAI claims they can train their AI to prioritize the system prompt (the "god prompt" if you prefer) above that of prompts injected by mere mortals
https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/19/24201414/openai-chatgpt-gpt-4o-prompt-injection-instruction-hierarchy
OpenAI’s latest model will block the ‘ignore all previous instructions’ loophole

GPT-4o Mini will include a safety mechanism that prevents prompt injections.

The Verge
@masek @briankrebs God knows how to deal with AI bots across time and space
@masek “Thou shalt have no other gods before me” Is this a tacit admission that there are other gods?
@masek if you have two masters, their orders will eventually conflict
@MaybeMyMonkeys That’s great: you pick the order that suits you best 😝

@masek

There's a lot in Talmud about the Ten Commandments: we'll never know what the first version of the Ten Commandment were - or even if there were ten.

Conjecture has it that God made sure the first five * commandments in the second version were about how those idolatrous Israelites could have no other gods before him

* or six, depends how you count 'em.

@masek

I mean, ten commandments, formatted as a bullet point list, is exactly what chatgpt would write.

Coincidence? I think not.

@masek one more point for the "you live in a simulation" scenario