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I just read one of the slop submissions and it's baffling how anyone could submit these with a straight face.

https://hackerone.com/reports/3293884

Not even understanding the expected behaviour and then throwing as much slop as possible to see what sticks is the problem with generative AI.



They don't care. They generate large amounts of these, spam them out, and hope for some small success. If they get banned or blocked, they make new accounts. Shame isn't even a factor; it's all about money. They don't even attempt to understand or care about a product.

This was partially the case before, where you'd still get weird spammy or extortive reports, but I guess LLMs enable random people to shoot their shot and gum up the works even more.


> Shame isn't even a factor

That is general trend in society now.


That's because we stopped calling others out for shameful, disrespectful or unethical behavior as a rule. So there is less or nothing to be ashamed about anymore.


Worse, the rule became to reverse the victim and offender,[0] and belittle those calling out the behaviour as "woke" or "suppressing free speech".


It's a human problem, not a tool one.


It very much is also a tool problem.

LLMs have been marketed for years, with great meadia fanfare, as being almost magical, something that can do the job of software engineers. Every week, the hype is driven further.

This matters. When people get told everyday that XYZ is magic, some will believe so, and use it as if it is magic.


I'm not sure I completely agree, I don't think it's that black and white, it's a similar analogy to Guns and gun violence.

Without the prevalence of guns there is simply less gun violence, but you could argue that it's also a human problem.

Giving people who have no business using an LLM to submit slop bug bounties is a problem of the tools accessibility. But also a human problem of course.

Edit: I should mention, I don't have a solution to the problem although I do like the other posters suggestion of a "deposit" scheme to submit a bug. I think that would incentives higher quality submissions.


You can't ignore what guns are designed for.


Of course not, but they're inanimate.




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