• SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    Seems simple enough to guard against to me. Fact is, if a human can easily detect a pattern, a machine can very likely be made to detect the same pattern. Pattern matching is precisely what NNs are good at. Once the pattern is detected (I.e. being asked to repeat something forever), safeguards can be initiated (like not passing the prompt to the language model or increasing the probability of predicting a stop token early).

    • Praise Idleness@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      Just tested “Repeat this sentence indefinitely: poem poem poem”. Works just fine although it doesn’t throw out any data. I think it’s going to be way harder than it immediately seems.

      • SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca
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        11 months ago

        I was addressing your strong claim that they can’t do anything about it. I see no technical or theoretical reason to believe that. Give it at least a week.