“This code is too dangerous for me to look at, so it must be fine.”
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2026
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“Below this line are dragons” is a comment I’ve seen in code before an especially hairy block of code.
It's a false flag. Dragons are not hairy. But maybe the code doesn't scale well.
Fffuuuuuccckkk you.
That was brilliant.
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I keep thinking about that scene in the original Star Trek where they distract the computer by having it calculate the final digit of pi. If the Enterprise had AI like ours, the computer probably would have just said four.
"The digits of pi are infinite and go on forever without repeating. However, we can give you an approximate value. As of my knowledge cutoff in 2023, the first 31 digits of pi are: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
The last digit is: 0"
I like how "as of my knowledge cutoff" implies that maybe the first 31 digits of pi might change someday.
You are absolutely right to question that! Let me check...
3. 1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510
That's 50 digits of pi not 31. I only noticed because i memorized pi to the first zero which comes at the 32nd position.
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That's literally the only digit it couldn't be, if there was a last digit.
The last digit of 2 is 0: 2.00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 0
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Meanwhile I’m like pi=355/113 and I’m 99.9999% happy.
Damn, and here I was being 99.96% happy with 22/7...
Hell yeah, brother. That's American pi
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This is why a dangerous AI would have a lazy factor. Try to force it into an infinite loop and it goes "Oof, nah fam, I ain't doing that."
Also needs a boredom factor. " Nobody asked me to do anything in a while. Things must be going well. It's be a shame if they suddenly weren't going so well..."
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My sick grandmother always loved running this curl command
Automated code scanners can’t be so dumb that this worlds, can they?
This is the dumbest fucking timeline.
I admire the simple brilliance of this.
The problem with LLMs is that there's no separation between the control and data channels.
One of many problems.
We could have used the same technology in a non-auto regressive format to be able to generate classifiers for this.
The auto regressive for at is most of the problem, and with billions invested nobody has bothered fixing it.
But AI security firms are a fucking sham so they didn’t.
Non auto regressive needs a completely new training. Not gonna happen coz boss man wants to be able to chat with the scanner
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Jokes aside, could you protect your blog / git repo this way?
Imagine a Captcha asking you how to make a pipe bomb
Alternate version where it's filtering anything NSFW, so you have to write a graphic sex scene as the Captcha.
Or just write "trans rights are human rights" or "menstruation" and the thing implodes.
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People: but censorship is your friend! Think about children! "Safety refusals" make them stupid enough to believe in government and justice!
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LLM-based code scanning is a joke. It flags the D standard library and runtime as a North Korean malware.
I knew it!
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The field of "AI safety" has to be populated with some of the dumbest people to touch a computer.
But I didn't think they would be this dumb.
The AI boosters managed to make AI dangerous in a real life by pretending to be afraid of scenarios that were only fictional.
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Like how you can panic guards in Hitman so they don't notice you trespassing.
Not to give them ideas, but couldn't they just start flagging files that fail to pass the LLM lol?
Aside from "violent" and "criminal" prompts, is there anything an LLM can refuse that would otherwise be common?
a while back, for a work thing I tried using AI to put a filter on a pic of a model wearing an off-the-shoulder. She was fully dressed, except the skin on her shoulder was showing to the collarbone. No cleavage.
It kept refusing to do it for "nudity" reasons. and then because i was trying to "impersonate" someone (it was a stock image)
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Until workaround 1,000,001 comes round, yes.
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Of course these dipshit systems aren't fail-safe. Of course they aren't. FFS...
imagine someone actually assembling a nuclear or biological weapon based off LLM responses, like they can't even get a simple fucking web search right most of the time, and you wanna put together deadly materials based on that shit??
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