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saimiamlast Monday at 8:46 AM3 repliesview on HN

Say I loosen the bolts of your car tires which causes a crash, that’s malware.

Say I lay a log on a road which you can clearly see and avoid but choose to drive over and crash your car, that’s prompt injection.

One is way worse than the other.


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tpmoneyyesterday at 5:06 PM

> Say I lay a log on a road which you can clearly see and avoid but choose to drive over and crash your car, that’s prompt injection.

Start laying hazards in the middle of the road and see how quickly the police introduce you to things like “reckless endangerment” and “involuntary manslaughter”. The general social contract is that you don’t take actions with the intent of causing harm to others regardless of whether the victim could have avoided the harm had they taken different actions.

avadodinlast Monday at 9:14 AM

A log the victim ran over last week loosened the bolts.

The prosecution wouldn't even blink if you pointed this out.

Unless the perpetrator intended for that to be the effect.

Have you heard about mens rea?

It turns random logging into laying logs onto a road intending to harm someone with the foreknowledge that they will harm the target and as a consequence any other people traveling on that road.

Terrorism charges and straight to gitmo.

infinite_spinlast Monday at 8:59 AM

both are intentional, both are wrong, we don't need to compare two wrong things and say one is better.. you also cannot predict whether intentionally leaving a hazard in a roadway will give someone a choice, that very thing happens all the time and it causes a significant number of deaths.