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[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I dont need a 5 minute podcast to explain the fact that LLMs are literally selecting the statistically most common answers, because thats literally what an LLM is

Thats like being surprised that the top 5 correct answers on family feud were the most commonly picked answers from the poll.

Dawg... thats literally how it works lol.

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

“Show me… the same combination on my luggage!”

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 17 points 1 month ago

Train your chatbot on TV Tropes, and the password will always be swordfish.

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

What dipshit says, "ChatGPT, give me a strong password."

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

The kind of person who cannot tell the difference between blindly guessing words and conscious thought.

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

potentially a common one, but we'll only know after password leak from somewhere

[–] NextElephant9@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought we all agreed that 4 was the random number.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Yes. Determined by fair dice roll.

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I just tried on copilot and it gave me 7.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I was fucking around the other day trying to get sha256 hashes.

[–] Hexarei@beehaw.org -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I gave my agents a skill that has them cat from /dev/urandom (which is this corralled into text characters) any time they need to generate passwords for something. Even then I have only ever had one need it like twice.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

jeeves would certainly approve

spoilerjeeves, played by young stephen fry, uses deadpan on wooster: “very good sir”, says jeeves and looks jeevesly.

[–] SpaceGameJunkie@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago

Always upvote a Jeeves and Wooster reference.