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LLM vendors are incredibly bad at responding to security issues(pivot-to-ai.com)

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Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systems
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Sloppy LLM programming? Never!

In completely unrelated news I’ve been staring at this spinner icon for the past five minutes after asking an LLM to output nothing at all:

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self@awful.systems
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same energy as “your request could not be processed due to the following error: Success”

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earthquake@lemm.ee
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What are the chances that the front end was not programmed to handle the LLM returning an empty string?

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Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systems
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Quite likely yeah. There’s no way they don’t have a timeout on the backend.

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David Gerard@awful.systemsOPM
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boooo Gemini now replies “I’m just a language model, so I can’t help you with that.”

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froztbyte@awful.systems
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“what would a reply with no text look like?” or similar?

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David Gerard@awful.systemsOPM
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what would a reply with no text look like?

nah it just described what an empty reply might look like in a messaging app

they seem to have done quite well at making Gemini do mundane responses

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