alt Hacker News>think that you're insinuating that these things can be fixed, but to my knowledge, both of these problems are practically unsolvable.
This is provably not true. LLMs CAN be restricted and censored and an LLM can be shown refusing an injection attack AND not hallucinating.
The world has seen a massive reduction in the problems you talk about since the inception of chatgpt and that is compelling (and obvious) to anyone with a foot in reality to know that from our vantage ppoint, solving the problem is more than likely not infeasible. That alone is proof that your claim here has no basis in truth.
> There is no short-term benefit that justifies their use when the destruction of your digital life — of whatever you're granting these things access to — is an inevitability that anyone with critical thinking skills can clearly see coming.
Also this is just false. It is not guaranteed it will destroy your digital life. There is a risk in terms of probability but that risk is (anecdotally) much less than 50% and nowhere near "inevitable" as you claim. There is so much anti-ai hype on HN that people are just being irrational about it. Don't call others to deploy critical thinking when you haven't done so yourself.
I'm a LLM evangelist. I think the positive impacts will far outweigh any negatives against it over time. That said, I'm not delusional about the limitations of the technology and there are a lot of them.
> This is provably not true. LLMs CAN be restricted and censored and an LLM can be shown refusing an injection attack AND not hallucinating.
The remediations that are in place because a engineering/safety/red team did its job are commendable. However, that does not speak to the innate vulnerability of these models, which is what we're talking about. I don't fear remediated CVEs. I fear zero day prompt injection attacks and I fear hallucinations, which have NOT been solved for. I don't know what you're talking about there. If you use LLMs daily and extensively like I do, then you know these things lie constantly and effortlessly. The only reason those lies aren't destructive is because I'm already a skilled engineer and I catch them before the LLM makes the changes.
These problems ARE inherent to LLMs. Prompt injection and hallucinations are problems that are NOT solvable at this time. You can defend against the ones you find via reports/telemetry but it's like trying to bale water out of a boat with a colander.
You're handing a toddler a loaded gun and belly laughing when it hits a target, but you're absolutely ignoring the underlying insanity of the situation. And I don't really know why.