alt Hacker NewsIt's malware for the mind. The same way that malware tricks the CPU into doing something it wasn't supposed to do, phishing tricks humans into doing something they didn't want to do.
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Does anyone remember the early 2000s joke virus emails? The ones that are variations on "This is a <outgroup> computer virus. As we don't have software engineers to write the code to do this automatically, please kindly forward this email to everyone in your address book then format your hard drive."
This is exactly as much malware as those were.
Please, for the love of all that is good, can we just try not to build and defend a world where, on encountering text like that, /your computer immediately follows the instructions/? Can we just all agree that such a world would be bad for everyone involved and using an LLM that risks doing this, with no container or guardrails, is at least as problematic as running an unpatched open email relay was back then?
How do you “trick” a CPU? Malware deceives people, not a CPU.