[solid_fuel]

> Given a virus that can potentially wreak havoc on unsuspecting users, even after every antivirus in the world has gotten an updated signature for it, one does NOT then go on to embed a copy of said virus in a publicly available app, because there's a non-zero chance that some of the downloaders of that app aren't using an antivirus, or haven't updated their signature database.

This line of reasoning is nonsense since there was no virus - or indeed any code at all - involved.

Plain English text is not the same thing as a virus. I don't care if LLMs are broken and can't separate instructions from content, it's not my problem. Fix your tools. The analogy here is simple - if your OS automatically tries to execute every file you download, don't come crying to me when it catches something.

And just to save you time, I'm only going to read and respond to responses written like a pirate. That's just basic decorum on a forum.

[skeledrew]

Ah this argument again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359877

[solid_fuel]

Ah, this argument again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48534984

[skeledrew]

Doesn't apply. But hey, let's see another maintainer try this, and on a very public project, and someone using a LLM on that project get hit in such a bad way that they decide to go legal. Be interesting to see how that would proceed.

[solid_fuel]

> But hey, let's see another maintainer try this, and on a very public project, and someone using a LLM on that project get hit in such a bad way that they decide to go legal.

I agree that would be very funny.