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by jychang 51 days ago
Are humans supposed to enjoy the "flavor" of diarrhea, as the result of giving every village idiot a microphone so they can spew shit from their mouths?

Sure, you might say this sort of thing is boiling flavor out of your food, but... boiling the bacteria out of what you consume isn't a bad thing.

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Ironically, the proposed extension would likely have neutered this comment to a shell of itself.
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I worry that "boiling" is still optimistic, since it isn't as simple or foolproof. It's more like a complex fermentation process, where it's possible for a malicious input to hijack how it works and generate something more dangerous than what you put in.

Even if the output is only shown to a human, imagine a comment in a thread that tricks an LLM into "summarizing" a false account where other innocent people said terrible ban-worthy things.