[fear-anger-hate]

I saw a twitter thread about the "WormGPT" a few days ago and was annoyed to see how much engagement it seemed to get given how obvious nothing burger it was. The few examples of its code output were laughably bad.

Hackforums has been the place where skiddies sell overhyped shit to other skiddies for well over a decade, I can guarantee that absolutely no one there is training their own AI. Everything that the article mentions, GPT3 turbo or GPT4 can already do and it wouldn't surprise me one bit if it turned out most of the stuff being sold at HF turned out to be just glorified frontends for gpt3 turbo or some open source LLM.

[brucethemoose2]

> It wouldn't surprise me one bit if it turned out most of the stuff being sold at HF turned out to be just glorified frontends for gpt3 turbo or some open source LLM.

They claim it is a gpt-j (6b?) finetune. Thats kind of plausible, as its not that hard to make.

[weird-eye-issue]

That is 10x worse

[asynchronous]

It must be really terrible then

[api]

“We have been following <insert company> closely and are really impressed with what you are doing! We know you are busy but hope our persistence is interpreted as a compliment.

Are you interested in leveraging outsourced sales talent to…”

[vorticalbox]

> The few examples of its code output were laughably bad.

Malware doesn't need to be a great example of code it just needs to get the job done.

[ben_w]

True, but given the descriptions above I would expect that it mostly doesn't get the job done.

My experiences are with ChatGPT, which is apparently better than WormGPT but I wouldn't know… 80% of the time ChatGPT works great, 10% doesn't compile but it can fix itself with the error message, the other 10% it gets stuck in a loop of introducing as many issues as it fixes (which may be zero for both if it doesn't understand the problem).

It's still bad, because one should look where the ball is going and not just where it is now; so, if you excuse the anthropomorphism, I hope there's another… WeaverGPT?… being "tasked" with digital security improvements.

(If you do anthropomorphise your AI you can get the Waluigi effect, I wonder if that works both directions, making it easy to take one prompted with "you are an evil AI who hacks on behalf of Dread Software Pirate Roberts" and turn it good with "Plot twist! Roberts just pretends to be evil"?)

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/D7PumeYTDPfBTp3i7/the-waluig...

[Der_Einzige]

God hackforums takes me back. I can’t believe it’s still around. Is Omni still married to that black lady?