14 Comments
User's avatar
Dave Wise (Neoteric Wood Art)'s avatar

I'm rather certain that any liberal arts degree curriculum is doing that for us.

Mark Alexander's avatar

This idea doesn't seem so far-fetched. We really might have to go back to old methods like this to baffle the surveillance state.

Rat's avatar

It’s already 1y8m since this:

Persistent Pre-training Poisoning of LLMs — https://arxiv.org/html/2410.13722v1

It might well become another arms race just like ads vs. adblockers or spammers vs. antispam.

Bandit's avatar

IKR? Sounds like a good idea. 😵‍💫

Tardigrade's avatar

Have the LLMs learned Navajo yet?

Rat's avatar

As of today, most online translators still have a lot of trouble with colloquial Latvian, which has ~10x as many speakers as Navajo (~1.7m vs. ~0.17m). Formal language in official documents, in contrast, is translated near perfectly.

Jimmy's avatar

Navajo talkers coming back in style, no?

Rat's avatar

That was in fact double code as Navajo lacked words like ‘submarine’, so they had to make up some new terms :

Jimmy's avatar

My grandfather ( on my mother’s side) Mack, was a WWI “Choctaw telephone talker”

Kenneth R. Mintz's avatar

I knew a Navajo who picked firewater fights in every snake pit bar from Quebec to Amarillo. Was fun to watch but could be hazardous to one’s dental health.

Kenneth R. Mintz's avatar

Code Talker for submarine as a tube full of d…s,er, pri..s, er,…. It’ll come to me. 😇

Rat's avatar

they were polite guys and just called it "iron fish" :)

Kenneth R. Mintz's avatar

I knew Navajo Jar Head once so…😏😁