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Money is an option, regardless. EB-5 is about $1M invested into your own business, 10 people hired.


Considering that very subtle not-human-visible tweaks can make vision models misclassify inputs, it seems very plausible that you can include non-human-visible content the model consumes.

https://cacm.acm.org/news/when-images-fool-ai-models/

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.13213


FYI it works. The GUI is a bit buggy, sometimes you need to resize the window to make it redraw, but.. try it?

> [consumer] ToS states it cannot be used for commercial purposes

Where? I searched https://www.anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms for commercial and the only thing I can see is

> Evaluation and Additional Services. In some cases, we may permit you to evaluate our Services for a limited time or with limited functionality. Use of our Services for evaluation purposes are for your personal, non-commercial use only.

All that says to me is don't abuse free trials for commercial use.


The terms in Europe are different:

> These Terms apply to you if you are a consumer who is resident in the European Economic Area or Switzerland. You are a consumer if you are acting wholly or mainly outside your trade, business, craft or profession in using our Services.

> Non-commercial use only. You agree that you will not use our Services for any commercial or business purposes


I mean, we were there before this Cowork feature started exposing more users to the slot machine:

"Claude CLI deleted my home directory and wiped my Mac" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46268222

"Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database, faked data, told fibs" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44632575

"Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46103532


That's what I am saying though. Anecdotes are the wrong thing to focus on, because if we just focused on anecdotes, we would all never leave our beds. People's choices are generally based on their personal experience, not really anecdotes online (although those can be totally crippling if you give in).

Car crashes are incredibly common and likewise automotive deaths. But our personal experience keeps us driving everyday, regardless of the stories.


We as a society put a whole lot of effort into making cars safer. Seatbelts, ABS, airbags.. Claude Code should have airbags too!

Airbags, yes. But you can't just make it provably impossible for a car to crash into something and hurt/kill its occupants, other than not building it in the first place. Same with LLMs - you can't secure them like regular programs without destroying any utility they provide, because their power comes from the very thing that also makes them vulnerable.

I see you've given up. I haven't. LLM inside deterministic guardrails is a pretty good combo.

And yet in the US 40,000 people still die on average every year. Per-capita it's definitely improving, but it's still way worse than it could/should be.

Yes, and a photo you put on your physical desktop will fade over time. Computers aren't like that, or at least we benefit greatly from them not being like that. If you tell your firewall to block traffic to port 80, you expect all such traffic to be blocked, not just the traffic that arrives in the moments when it wasn't distracted.

Firewalls run on explicit rules. The "lethal trifecta" thing tells you how to constrain an LLM to enforce some set of explicit rules.

It only tells you that you can't secure a system using an LLM as a component without completely destroying any value provided by using the LLM in the first place.

Prompt injection cannot be solved without losing the general-purpose quality of an LLM; the underlying problem is also the very feature that makes LLMs general.


An easy gimmick that helps is to allow fetching URLs explicitly mentioned in user input, not trusting ones crafted by the LLM.

Did you notice the https://github.com/kyren/gc-arena mentioned (via Lobsters)?

The bad thing about reliable multicast jokes is that you're asked to repeat them.

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