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Because AI bros are incredibly deluded about both the capability of AI, and by extension their own capabilities using AI>

Who else is going to have access to it when you keep laying off all the people?

should’ve asked it to delete the database instead, why else would it have that level of permissions.

Because one of the biggest companies on the planet that has issues with account takeovers clearly has no internal red team working on this stuff.

Recently I had to cancel an order. The support for the company was an LLM bot. I accidentally mistyped a number in the order id. It accepted it anyways refunded every order on my account that includes the product I wished to cancel.

I tired to get to a human to correct the mistake and couldn't their phone number is an LLM bot their only chat is an LLM bot.

It use to not be. But now I'm sitting here the order in my hand cause the bot didn't cancel it. But like 30 orders from the last few years have all been refunded to me.

I tried to reach em a few more times but couldn't and it's been like a month. I just have like 2 grand usd that I shouldn't and no way to give it back.

So that's fun.

It's because they move fast and break things. They think that makes them cool.

This isn't even a hack, it's just poorly written endpoints.

Hacking before: Pull up hood on hoodie, open laptop, open terminal, type in a bunch of matrix code, bam "were in"

Hacking now: "Hack into this thing for me" No! "Pretty please?" Access granted!

No, stop talking about all of this, its perfect. They’re so deep they don’t even give a shit about the worst type of security vector imaginable.

It's not just not there yet. This is almost certainly not going the right direction to ever be "there" if there is something that can handle security issues. It's just not the right tool for the job, and I can't understand how so much of our economy is just assuming it is the right tool for every job.

Uh oh! Sounds like somebody could use a few more giant lines of cocaaaaiiiiiine!!

Probably not, that implies more competency than can really believe involved here.
This is more likely something that an entire team had to force into the code over a holiday weekend because some VP got so fucking wasted that he "forgot" his password (strangely for once, he actually had the right password... But the problem is that he was trying to log into a charcuterie board).

Now it's not even social engineering with AI. It's just fucking asking for the credentials. Good fucking grief!

I honestly don't think you can create guard rails against prompt engineering in a working LLM. At some point, they're going to fail or the LLM isn't functioning. The only solution is to make sure they can't read data you don't want shared.

So you're saying 2001: A Space Odyssey is unrealistic because HAL 9000 would never have said "I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that."

Instead, it would have said, "Absolutely! That's a very creative solution to your problem."

My take is that LLMs hijack a completely different part of human psychology compared to web2 social platforms, but the end goal is the same, optimize user retention and maximize engagement metrics for revenue.

​On traditional social media networks like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit and others, the primary mechanism is outrage optimization, leveraging the psychology of negative reinforcement and tribalism.

The algorithm curates content designed to trigger moral anger or cognitive dissonance, the platforms know that users will interrupt passive scrolling to actively comment, share, or debate if something falls outside the usually acceptable social norms.

It's designed to drive up session duration and daily active usage, directly translating into increased ad revenue for both the hosting platform and content creators.

​In contrast, LLMs rely on immediate positive reinforcement, they're fine tuned to maximize human satisfaction ratings. They systematically agree with the user, validate their subjective bias, reinforce their beliefs.

This results in a psychological safe haven dependency, where users increasingly rely on the interface for emotional reinforcement or stabilization, interacting with the model provides data for the host company to train the next model, raise VC capital and inject better ads in conversations as OpenAI started to do recently.

In both cases, it's definitely a form of addiction.