Deebster

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[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 3 points 48 minutes ago (1 children)

My friends would probably say something like "I've never heard that one, but I guess it means something like ..."

The problem is, these LLMs don't give any indication when they're making stuff up versus when repeating an incontrovertible truth. Lots of people don't understand the limitations of things like Google's AI summary* so they will trust these false answers. Harmless here, but often not.

* I'm not counting the little disclaimer because we've been taught to ignore smallprint from being faced with so much of it

[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 4 points 2 hours ago

I found that trying "some-nonsense-phrase meaning" won't always trigger the idiom interpretation, but you can often change it to something more saying-like.

I also found that trying in incognito mode had better results, so perhaps it's also affected by your settings. Maybe it's regional as well, or based on your search result. And, as AI's non-deterministic, you can't expect it to always work.

 

Archived link: https://archive.ph/Vjl1M

Here’s a nice little distraction from your workday: Head to Google, type in any made-up phrase, add the word “meaning,” and search. Behold! Google’s AI Overviews will not only confirm that your gibberish is a real saying, it will also tell you what it means and how it was derived.

This is genuinely fun, and you can find lots of examples on social media. In the world of AI Overviews, “a loose dog won't surf” is “a playful way of saying that something is not likely to happen or that something is not going to work out.” The invented phrase “wired is as wired does” is an idiom that means “someone's behavior or characteristics are a direct result of their inherent nature or ‘wiring,’ much like a computer's function is determined by its physical connections.”

It all sounds perfectly plausible, delivered with unwavering confidence. Google even provides reference links in some cases, giving the response an added sheen of authority. It’s also wrong, at least in the sense that the overview creates the impression that these are common phrases and not a bunch of random words thrown together. And while it’s silly that AI Overviews thinks “never throw a poodle at a pig” is a proverb with a biblical derivation, it’s also a tidy encapsulation of where generative AI still falls short.

[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I had "install Linkwarden" on my todo list; Hoarder/Karakeep seems very similar, does anyone have opinions on which is better?

[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Not your post, either ;) We're c/selfhosted around these parts.

[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 3 points 2 weeks ago

I think it's more that using tho instead of though is quite casual, but then you use thusly, which is rather formal. The change of register is surprising/funny.

Like if someone wrote "Indeed, it is most unexpected lol".

[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

So they rewrote Nepenthes (or Iocaine, Spigot, Django-llm-poison, Quixotic, Konterfai, Caddy-defender, plus inevitably some Rust versions)

Edit, but with ✨AI✨ and apparently only true facts

[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

After being virtually dead, it's had a lot more development over the last few years(?), with steady progress towards passing the tests and supporting the specs (including reporting spec bugs and vagueness). It's still a long way from being generally usable.

The focus is on making something that could be embeddable, although there are basic browsers using that embed. The focus seems to be on for use-cases like Electron, which doesn't need all of the web APIs.

I don't use it or contribute (yet), but I have their blog in my RSS reader and so keep an eye on it.