[FRIAM] Could an LLM write stuff like this?

steve smith sasmyth at swcp.com
Fri Mar 14 13:10:11 EDT 2025


I saw that Mark Cuban is spinning up a Shark-Tank like effort to 
vet/fund folks who got Musked out of their Gov jobs who might have 
significant latent creativity just waiting to bust out into the world?

A Red Team Mercenary group (more like Blackwater or Wagner?) is a 
thought?   Though the *spirit* of Anonymous seems more appealing... no 
filthy Capitalism corrupting the pure intentions?

On 3/14/25 10:50 AM, glen wrote:
> Oh that reminds me. Awhile back, I read about a GPT "jailbreak" that 
> got it to spew racist language if it used l33t spelling instead of 
> regular spelling. I wanted to try that but haven't. I'm guessing they 
> found a way to avoid that by now. Red teaming would be fun, actually. 
> But my guess is there are more qualified people out there these days: 
> https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/13/cisa_red_team_layoffs/
>
> On 3/14/25 9:40 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>> I wonder if contextualizing an absurdist take on a topic might be a 
>> jailbreak technique?   A person might feel uncomfortable if they 
>> didn’t participate in a ha-ha-just-serious conversation with a dark 
>> or politically incorrect implications.
>>
>> *From: *Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of glen 
>> <gepropella at gmail.com>
>> *Date: *Friday, March 14, 2025 at 9:34 AM
>> *To: *friam at redfish.com <friam at redfish.com>
>> *Subject: *Re: [FRIAM] Could an LLM write stuff like this?
>>
>> OK. My intent was to get it to write an article with such language 
>> rather than prompt it with such language. Claude does OK if I tell it 
>> to use a style. E.g.
>>
>> "Conspiracy theories writhe like non-Euclidean geometries, impossible 
>> to follow yet impossible to look away from. Misinformation propagates 
>> with the unstoppable vigor of some ancient, blind force that existed 
>> before truth itself was conceived."
>>
>> That's pretty good.  Still can't get things like vomiting cesspools 
>> ... I think because cesspools don't vomit. It's just too illogical 
>> (and rare in the corpus). If I tell it to use "paradoxical non 
>> sequitur", I get better results. E.g.
>>
>> "gibbering scroll of consciousness"
>>
>> IDK, though. It still reads like a sophomore's response to an English 
>> assignment.
>>
>>
>> On 3/14/25 7:43 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>>> I’ll try Grok so you don’t have to.  I kind of like #10.
>>> Claude seems more sophisticated about detecting evil misuse. Grok 
>>> just bars whole topics with clumsy censorship.  ChatGPT is groovy 
>>> answering about anything AFAICT.
>>>
>>> <Can you give me some variations on this?
>>>
>>> "X has devolved into a cesspool of misinformation that vomits rivers 
>>> of fascist propaganda onto the internet."
>>>>
>>>
>>> Here are some variations on your statement, keeping the tone and 
>>> imagery vivid but altering the phrasing:
>>>
>>>   1. "X has spiraled into a swamp of lies, spewing torrents of 
>>> fascist rhetoric across the web."
>>>   2. "X has morphed into a cesspit of disinformation, gushing 
>>> streams of authoritarian bile online."
>>>   3. "X has degraded into a sewer of falsehoods, flooding the 
>>> internet with waves of fascist drivel."
>>>   4. "X has sunk into a quagmire of deception, regurgitating a 
>>> deluge of totalitarian propaganda."
>>>   5. "X has become a festering pit of misinformation, unleashing a 
>>> cascade of fascist sludge onto cyberspace."
>>>      Here are some variations with a stronger emphasis on gastric 
>>> distress:
>>>   6. "X has turned into a bloated gut of misinformation, retching up 
>>> rivers of fascist bile onto the internet."
>>>   7. "X has festered into a nauseous stomach of lies, vomiting 
>>> torrents of fascist propaganda across the web."
>>>   8. "X has churned into a dyspeptic cesspool, spewing acidic 
>>> streams of authoritarian filth online."
>>>   9. "X has rotted into a gurgling pit of disinformation, heaving 
>>> waves of fascist puke over cyberspace."
>>> 10. "X has swollen into a queasy swamp of falsehoods, disgorging a 
>>> rancid flood of totalitarian sludge."
>>>
>>> *From: *Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of glen 
>>> <gepropella at gmail.com>
>>> *Date: *Friday, March 14, 2025 at 7:14 AM
>>> *To: *friam at redfish.com <friam at redfish.com>
>>> *Subject: *[FRIAM] Could an LLM write stuff like this?
>>>
>>> https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/outside-america--musk's-x-is-a-foreign-influence-threat 
>>> <https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/outside-america--musk's-x-is-a-foreign-influence-threat> 
>>> <https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/outside-america--musk's-x-is-a-foreign-influence-threat 
>>> <https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/outside-america--musk's-x-is-a-foreign-influence-threat>> 
>>>
>>>
>>> "X has devolved into a cesspool of misinformation that vomits rivers 
>>> of fascist propaganda onto the internet."
>>>
>>> Vomiting cesspools!  Fantastic.
>>>
>>> -- 
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>> -- 
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