Post #4153390 · Elektrine

2026-07-28 03:14 UTC

@vrek@mastodon.social @conniptions@mastodon.social @lzg@mastodon.social It's an abuse of language, is my main point. It's become almost like a thought-terminating cliche. They just roll out the word "guardrails" and nobody even knows what it's supposed to mean. "Um, sounds like common sense... shucks, these guys are SMART! They think of everything!" But they're not smart. They're mendacious. They know that this meaningless phrase is enough to con most people.

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@conniptions@mastodon.social 2026-07-28 03:22

@muddle@infosec.exchange @vrek@mastodon.social @lzg@mastodon.social It's even worse than that. "Guardrails" for LLMs consist of requests, in natural language, to the LLM, as part of the so-called 'system prompt'. Things like "IMPORTANT: DO NOT ADD ***ANY*** COMMENTS unless asked". It's a fucking joke.

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@vrek@mastodon.social 2026-07-28 03:23

@muddle@infosec.exchange @conniptions@mastodon.social @lzg@mastodon.social I'm not saying that. I'm saying the use of "gaurdrails" at all is bad. It's similar to the driving thing. I don't want gaurd rails to prevent me from driving off the road. I want a car that can drive, stay in its lane, maintain appropriate speed, etc. Like here is the written history of us law, find me a case similar to this case I'm arguing. Here is the documentation of the go language, write me a tcp/http server with these assets. I give a road, stay on it.

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