actually not too dumb lol
I think most students are copying/pasting instructions to GPT, not uploading documents.
Right, but the whitespace between instructions wasn’t whitespace at all but white text on white background instructions to poison the copy-paste.
Also the people who are using chatGPT to write the whole paper are probably not double-checking the pasted prompt. Some will, sure, but this isnt supposed to find all of them its supposed to catch some with a basically-0% false positive rate.
Yeah knocking out 99% of cheaters honestly is a pretty good strategy.
And for students, if you’re reading through the prompt that carefully to see if it was poisoned, why not just put that same effort into actually doing the assignment?
It just takes one person to notice (or see a tweet like this) and tell everybody else that the teacher is setting a trap.
Once the word goes out about this kind of thing, everybody will be double checking the prompt.
yes but copy paste includes the hidden part if it’s placed in a strategic location
Just takes one student with a screen reader to get screwed over lol
A human would likely ask the professor who is Frankie Hawkes… later in the post they reveal Hawkes is a dog. GPT just hallucinate something up to match the criteria.
I’d presume the professor would do a quick sanity search to see if by coincidence relevant works by such an author would exist before setting that trap. Upon searching I can find no such author of any sort of publication.
I like to royally fuck with chatGPT. Here’s my latest, to see exactly where it draws the line lol:
https://chatgpt.com/share/671d5d80-6034-8005-86bc-a4b50c74a34b
TL;DR: your internet connection isn’t as fast as you think
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the hiway.
Pigeons with flash drives ftw
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/yes-a-pigeon-is-still-faster-than-gigabit-fiber-internet
Peregrine falcons FTL…
(There’s this fat fucker that hunts off our building’s rooftop. It waits for a pigeon to strike the neighboring buildings windows and scoops them up. Some how it’s reassuring to know that humans aren’t the only lazy animals. Peregrine are freaking cool though.)
Ages ago, there was a time where my dad would mail back up tapes for offsite storage because their databases were large enough that it was faster to put it through snail mail.
It should also be noted his databases were huge, (they’d be bundled into 70 pound packages and shipped certified.)
Just a couple of years ago I was sent a dataset by mail, around 1TB on a hard drive.
Later I worked on visualization of large datasets, we didn’t have the space to store them locally because they were up to a PB.
I’m laughing my ass off at this
Edit:
https://chatgpt.com/share/671da57b-5fe4-8005-bdba-68b69f398c72
Still fucking amazing
Awesome bandwidth to be sure, but I do think there is a difference between data transfer to RAM (such as network traffic) vs. traffic purely from one location to another (station wagon with tapes/747 with SD cards/etc.).
For the latter, actually using the data in any meaningful way is probably limited to read time of the media, which is likely slow.
But yeah, my go-to would be micro SD cards on a plane :)
I like to manipulate dallee a lot by making fantastical reasons why I need edgy images.
I’ve been down that rabbit hole too, but if I see that fucking dog again, I’m going to rage
Is that now 6 comma 016 or 6016?
We do , and . for parts, ’ for thousands here.
I wish more teachers and academics would do this, because I"m seeing too many cases of “That one student I pegged as not so bright because my class is in the morning and they’re a night person, has just turned in competent work. They’ve gotta be using ChatGPT, time to report them for plagurism. So glad that we expell more cheaters than ever!” and similar stories.
Even heard of a guy who proved he wasn’t cheating, but was still reported anyway simply because the teacher didn’t want to look “foolish” for making the accusation in the first place.
I uploaded one of my earlier papers that I wrote myself, before AI was really a thing, to a GPT detector site. The entire intro paragraph came back as 100% AI written.
At this point I’m convinced these detectors are looking for the usage of big words and high word counts, instead of actually looking for things like incorrect syntax, non-sequitur statements, suspiciously rapid topic changes, forgetting earlier parts of the paper to only reference things that happen in the previous sentence…
Too many of these “See, I knew you were cheating! This proves it!” Professors are pointing to “flowery language”, when that’s kind of the number one way to reach a word count requirement.
When it shouldn’t be that hard, I used to use ChatGPT to help edit stories I write (Fiction writer as a hobby), but then when I realized it kept pointing me to grammar mistakes that just didn’t exist, ones that it failed to elaborate on when pressed for details.
I then asked what exactly my story was about.
I was then given a massive essay that reeked of “I didn’t actually read this, but I’m going to string together random out of context terminology from your book like I’m a News Reporter from the 90’s pretending to know what this new anime fad is.” Some real “Cowboy Bepop at his computer” shit
The main point of conflict of the story wasn’t even mentioned. Just some nonsense about the cast “Learning about and exploring the Spirit World!” (The story was not about the afterlife at all, it was about a tribe that generations ago was cursed to only birth male children and how they worked with missionaries voluntarily due to requiring women from outside the tribe to “offer their services” in order to avoid extinction… It was a consensual thing for the record… This wasn’t mentioned in ChatGPT’s write up at all)
That’s when the illusion broke and I realized I wasn’t having MegaMan.EXE jack into my system to fight the baddies and save my story! I merely had an idiot who didn’t speak english as a writing partner, and I’ve never
I wish I hadn’t let that put me off writing more…
I was building to a bigger conflict where the tribe breaks the curse and gets their women back, they believe wives will just manifest from the ether… Instead the Fertility Goddess that cursed them was just going to reveal that their women were being born into male bodies, and just turn all who would have been born female to be given male bodies instead. So when the curse was broken half the tribe turned female creating a different kind of shock.
There was this set up that the main character was a warrior for the tribe who had a chauvinistic overly macho jackass for a rival… and the payoff was going to be that the lead character was going to be one of those “Women cursed with masculinity”, so when the curse is broken he becomes a woman and gets both courted by and bullied by the rival over it, who eventually learns that your close frenemy suddenly having a vagina is not a license to bang her, no matter what “TG Transformation Story Cliches” say about the matter…
Lot of
“Dahl’mrk, I swear if you replace my hut’s hunting idol with one of those fertility statuettes while I’m sleeping one more time, I’m going to shove both up your bumhole.”
Energy…
God I should really get back to it, I had only finished chapter one… and the mass gender-unbending doesn’t happen till chapter 3.
My college workflow was to copy the prompt and then “paste without formatting” in Word and leave that copy of the prompt at the top while I worked, I would absolutely have fallen for this. :P
Judging by the response from ChatGPT they probably see themselves as some sort of literary critic?
Frankie Hawkes’ more recent critiques of Romeo and Juliet reflect an intriguing blend of literary analysis with insights derived from machine learning advancements. Hawkes has argued that the play’s weather motifs function almost algorithmically, influencing characters’ actions in a manner akin to predictive patterns.
Wot? They didn’t say they cheated, they said they kept a copy of the prompt at the top of their document while working.
Any use of an LLM in understanding any subject or create any medium, be it papers or artwork, results in intellectual failure, as far as I’m concerned. Imagine if this were a doctor or engineer relying on hallucinated information, people could die.
