geekwithsoul

I think the difference is that sealioning is a pattern of behavior, rather than just occasionally asking for a source. It describes the lack of intent to engage in good faith discussion and instead just is a method of trolling.

If it’s malware, it - by definition - is going to need to run a privileged executable. That’s the “ware” in “malware”. The LLM is just explaining the specific method they’re attempting to use - which again should be obvious both by the nature of the actions it’s requesting from the user as well as the specific text it’s asking to be run. It explicitly says it doesn’t know anything about the executable that’s being run, so it really isn’t offering anything particularly useful or actionable - just wasting resources.

<clutches pearls> Making a scene?! Oh no! Have I shattered the fragile Lemmy decorum with my boorish behavior? How dreadful!

Listen, if you want to believe an LLM has anything useful to say about the malware you’re presented with on dodgy sites, go for it.

And I’ll be free to think you’re a prime example for why we should start requiring a “drivers license” to get on a computer. To each their own.

“Chill out you”

Fucking priceless. The LLM didn’t explain anything beyond what was obvious from just looking at it. It was trying to get you to run a privileged executable. The LLM doesn’t have a clue what the executable does, and even admits that. So why bother asking it?

Let’s take the tech out of it. You’re at a restaurant and you’re given a beverage in a glass, but you can see the glass is dirty with food residue. Do you have to consult an LLM to know not to drink out of it? Does it matter what sort of food residue it is? Of course not.

I swear people’s critical thinking skills are non-existent or in complete atrophy these days. The only thing of potential interest is the executable itself and if you’re posting this question, I’m not sure any explanation or details would mean anything to you.

Okay but pretty much any malware is going to follow those same steps - they’re what makes it malware. The LLM doesn’t “prove” anything - it’s not examining the executable, it’s not setting up a VM and doing deep packet analysis to see how the malware operates. It’s just parroting back the fact this is malware with details seeded from the prompt. This is like yelling into a canyon and “proving” someone is stuck in the canyon and yelling because you heard an echo.

No one should be using an LLM as a security backstop. It’s only going to catch the things that have already been seen before, and the minute a bad actor introduces something the least bit novel in the attack, the LLM is confidently going to say it isn’t malware because it hasn’t seen it before. A simple web search would have turned up essentially the same information and used only a small fraction of the resources.

Or you can just know that if some rando site is asking you to run cmd and powershell as some sort of authentication scheme, you’re about to get your shit fucked up. The specifics literally don’t matter, this is behavior no legit site would request you to do.

You needed an LLM to figure out this was malware?! Sweet jesus, we’re well and truly fucked.

I picked up a set of 10" x 10" tempered glass cutting boards and have been really happy with them. Dishwasher safe, non-porous, easy to handwash and easy to use. This was after years of using every other material. And no, my knives are fine.

I think you’re confusing social media and late stage capitalism. Social media hasn’t done anything to anyone, capitalism has used social media to further its own ends.

One other thing I haven’t seen mentioned is selling ice cream is only a sustainable business for a few months out of the year in many places. Whereas you can sell burgers/dogs/etc year-round. But yeah, as far as I know they’ve always sold fast food - their burgers were a fave of mine when I was a kid in the 70s.

“S’iomadh Rid” (“The Dhith Om / Clamor A Ni Mi”) sung by Rhiannon Giddens

What a fucking waste of resources

Black gospel music has often been the only Christian-oriented music that really did it for me. A lot of blues, soul, etc was created by folks who got their start in black gospel music, and used what they learned there in secular genres. Hugely influential in so many different types of music.

The Man With One Red Shoe is much worse than Joe Versus the Volcano. And if made for TV movies count, you have to throw in Mazes and Monsters. Oh and Bonfire of the Vanities was a famous flop. And Volunteers was pretty bad. People forget how bad some of his early stuff was.

Hell, both Forrest Gump and Castaway were tremendously overrated. Also the unwatchable Cloud Atlas and the stupid Dan Brown movies.

<suddenly dawns on me that Tom Hanks makes a lot of bad movies>

Big Ag will always find ways to turn corn into anything.

If it’s an air quality monitor, they likely need to move it around to get different sampling areas.

Something like this? https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2022/10/31/former-head-of-tesla-ai-explains-why-theyve-removed-sensors-others-differ/

Oh wow. UM really is just a malignancy that refuses to go away, isn’t he? I’m all for allowing different opinions but if someone keeps peeing in the pool, sooner or later you stop letting him in.

In casual conversation IRL, if someone made this claim, I’d assume good faith. Or even in a reply to an existing discussion of Snopes. But OP decided to make a post without verifying their information and then went through and defended that take in the comments when people explained the actual facts to them. This wasn’t done in good faith, it would appear.

This has the same energy as the folks running around doing a disinfo op on Wikipedia. None of this is true and either OP wildly misunderstood the situation or they’re intentionally being deceitful.