Comment by lazide
LLMs are less robust individually because they can be (more predictably) triggered. Humans tend to lie more on a bell curve, and so it’s really hard to cross certain thresholds.
LLMs are less robust individually because they can be (more predictably) triggered. Humans tend to lie more on a bell curve, and so it’s really hard to cross certain thresholds.
Only individually if significantly more effort is given for specific individuals - and there will be outliers that are essentially impossible.
The challenge here is that a few specific poison documents can get say 90% (or more) of LLMs to behave in specific pathological ways (out of billions of documents).
It’s nearly impossible to get 90% of humans to behave the same way on anything without massive amounts of specific training across the whole population - with ongoing specific reinforcement.
Hell, even giving people large packets of cash and telling them to keep it, I’d be surprised if you could get 90% of them to actually do so - you’d have the ‘it’s a trap’ folks, the ‘god wouldn’t want me too’ folks, the ‘it’s a crime’ folks, etc.
> Only individually if significantly more effort is given for specific individuals
I think significant influence over mass media like television, social media, or the YouTube, TikTok, or Facebook algorithms[1] is sufficient.
1: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17470161155795...
Classical conditioning experiments seem to show that humans (and other animals) are fairly easily triggered as well. Humans have a tendency to think themselves unique when we are not.