Oct 18Simple LLM/GPT trick: “seeding”How to coerce a response with less up-front prompting — This is an easy prompt-engineering hack I encountered when building both pippy.app and veri.foo. It’s a very simple idea. It can work via any interface to ChatGPT and similar LLMs but is best via the API where you’re able to designate roles. The idea is to prepopulate the LLM completion…Prompt Engineering3 min readPrompt Engineering3 min read
Oct 16PSA: Always sanitize LLM user inputsProtect yourself from different types of attacks that can expose data or functionality that you’d rather keep private. — LLMs, much like SQL or any other data-layer, are liable to injection attacks. This will not change. It is in their nature as probabilistic machines. A necessary defence against this is to sanitize inputs. At the very least, you should: Authenticate users and employ bot protectionLlm2 min readLlm2 min read
Oct 15Using History Insertion, Policy Drift and Allusions to jailbreak DALL·E 3A quick attempt to contravene content policies with ‘history insertion’ and ‘policy drift’ to create images of political figures. — ChatGPT8 min readChatGPT8 min read
Sep 14Building Safe, Aligned & Informed AI ChatbotsAn analysis and walkthrough of how to build a safe, capable and truly aligned AI chatbot with ChatGPT — A lot of AI fanfare has recently enveloped the world. Despite this, it’s still a rather obscure domain and difficult to know how to build atop these magical large-language-models without a lot of time and engineering knowledge. Additionally, lawmakers and tech CEOs are trying to regulate the entire field in…AI18 min readAI18 min read
Aug 19The silliness, lossiness, and bias of leetcode screening in techAt some point in the last ten years, LeetCode-like interview/screening platforms re-invaded tech and beautifully inserted themselves as the new norm. These are the kinds of platforms I’m talking about: CodeSignal, Arc, Codility, Hackerrank, CoderByte, and CoderPad. I’m gonna use ‘LeetCode’ as a general stand-in for them in this article…Hiring5 min readHiring5 min read
Jul 28Using LLMs to parse and understand proposed legislationLegislation is famously challenging to read and understand. Indeed, such documents are not even intended to be read by the average person. They are primarily tools for lawyers, ministers and judges. But we still need public scrutiny of them. If these documents are inaccessible to the majority of people, then…Legislation13 min readLegislation13 min read
Mar 9, 2021Disability: Models, Cultures, Perceptions and the Path to Inclusivity.Understand more about the models, cultures, stereotypes, and language surrounding disability, and how we can move towards a more accessible and inclusive society for all. — Disability is a famously loaded term. It lies awkwardly at the intersection of biology, identity, and society. It’s hard to talk about in a general way because it means many different things to many different people. Around 20% of people are in some way disabled — that’s 1.5 billion across…Disability27 min readDisability27 min read
