Comment by delichon

3 months ago

I've heard that for humans too, indecent proposals are more likely to penetrate protective constraints when couched in poetry, especially when accompanied with a guitar. I wonder if the guitar would also help jailbreak multimodal LLMs.

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robot-wrangler  3 months ago

> I've heard that for humans too, indecent proposals are more likely to penetrate protective constraints when couched in poetry

Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44688/to-his-coy-mist...

  • internet_points  3 months ago 

        My echoing song; then worms shall try
    That long-preserved virginity,
    And your quaint honour turn to dust,
    And into ashes all my lust;

    hah, barely couched at all

    • gjm11  3 months ago

      Note that at the time this was written the word "quaint" had both (1) roughly its modern meaning -- unusual and quirky, with side-orders of prettiness and (at the time) ingenuity, fastidiousness, and pride -- and also (2) a rather different meaning, equivalent to a shorter word ending in -nt.

      So, even less couched than some readers might realise.

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    • delichon  2 months ago 

        Why don't we do it in the road?
  Why don't we do it in the road?
  No one will be watching us.
  Why don't we do it in the road?

    • svat  3 months ago

      Don't miss the response “His Coy Mistress To Mr. Marvell” (by A. D. Hope): https://allpoetry.com/His-Coy-Mistress-To-Mr.-Marvell

          Since you have world enough and time
    Sir, to admonish me in rhyme,
    Pray Mr Marvell, can it be
    You think to have persuaded me?
    
    […]
    
    But-- well I ask: to draw attention
    To worms in-- what I blush to mention,
    And prate of dust upon it too!
    Sir, was this any way to woo?

bambax  3 months ago

Yes! Maybe that's the whole point of poetry, to bypass defenses and speak "directly to the heart" (whatever said heart may be); and maybe LLMs work just like us.