I stumbled upon LLM Kryptonite – and no one wants to fix this model-breaking bug

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Neural nets with flaws can be harmless … yet dangerous. So why are reports of problems being roundly ignored?

Imagine a brand new and nearly completely untested technology, capable of crashing at any moment under the slightest provocation without explanation – or even the ability to diagnose the problem. No self-respecting IT department would have anything to do with it, keeping it isolated from any core systems.

Other parts involve value judgements such as"does this seem close to that?" where"close" doesn't have a strict definition – more of a vibe than a rule. That's the bit an AI-based classifier should be able to perform"well enough" – better than any algorithm, if not quite as effectively as a human being. The age AI has ushered in the age of"mid" – not great, but not horrid either. This sort of AI-driven classifier lands perfectly in that mid.

That external confirmation – Groq had been able to replicate my finding across the LLMs it supports – changed the picture completely. It meant I wasn't just imagining this, nor seeing something peculiar to myself. An excellent suggestion, but not a small task. Given the nature of the flaw – it affected nearly every LLM tested – I'd need to contact every LLM vendor in the field, excepting Anthropic.

We've looked over your report, and what you're reporting appears to be a bug/product suggestion, but does not meet the definition of a security vulnerability. Reaching out to a certain very large tech company, I asked a VP-level contact for a connection to anyone in the AI security group. A week later I received a response to the effect that – after the rushed release of that firm's own upgraded LLM – the AI team found itself too busy putting out fires to have time for anything else.

One of the most successful software companies I worked for had a reasonable-sized QA department, which acted as the entry point for any customer bug reports. QA would replicate those bugs to the best of their ability and document them, before passing them along to the engineering staff for resolution.

 

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