BlueMonday1984

@ BlueMonday1984 @awful.systems

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4w ago

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BlueMonday1984 @awful.systems 4w ago
I tested this with the Navy Seal Copypasta (well, the first 400 letters of it, the demo's got a limit) - using just Cryllic characters got me a 3.01x increase, and turning on all four control types got a 4.53x increase.
Testing your own recent comment, Cryllic only got 3.38x, and all four controls got 5.11x.
Going from those two, the boost from homoglyphs alone is likely higher than you think - 3x to 3.5x, by my guess - pretty good for human readable text.
Tarpits like Iocaine and Nepenthes can easily sacrifice readability for token burn, so they can easily go higher.

1mo ago

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BlueMonday1984 @awful.systems 1mo ago

Adversarial tokenmaxxing could probably be done by using non-English character sets in lieu of English letters (e.g. faux Cryllic) - for two examples from the Greek alphabet, alpha and omicron alone can easily substitute for A and O, respectively.

As a bonus, this would likely make the text look like complete gibberish to LLMs, potentially leaving them unable to process the document altogether. This would probably shaft anyone using screen readers, though.

EDIT: Turns out the demonstration's already caught on to this idea, didn't notice beforehand:

Another "AI fucked compsci grads" post has hit my eyeballs - this time, it got recommended to me by LinkedIn's algorithm) (because I'm still on that site for some fucking reason):

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study philosophy, not computer science

data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows that philosophy students have a lower unemployment rate (about 5.1%) than computer science students (7%)

why?

unique human judgment, logic, and ethical reasoning are becoming premium assets, and better tech means companies increasingly DON'T need to ask "can we build this?", and increasingly DO need to ask "should we build this, and what are the consequences?"

If there has ever been a time to build those soft, truly human, skills, it is now.

p.s. what do you think is the BEST skill to have right now - my thoughts are in the comments

This one's attributing the decline to "unique human judgment, logic, and ethical reasoning becoming premium assets", and her graph comes from The Economist's Instagram page AFAICT. That one of the Economist's sources is Anthropic is giving me some hope this is bullshit, but its not much.