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Language models are gullible by design — they do what they are told and believe nearly anything said to them — and that, not a bug, is what makes software built on them attackable.

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  1. Simon Willison

    Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette

    The problem with language models is they're incredibly gullible by design. Like, language models do exactly what you tell them to do, and they will believe almost anything that you say to them.

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