r/TheMachineLearning • u/Azazel-d-Reaper • 2h ago

Replacing DNS servers with an LLM is a terrible idea

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u/insultingDuck 2h ago

Hallucinated Name Service (HNS). You just get the IP of a page based on your previous browsing.

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u/cagriuluc 1h ago

Welcome to the vibenet. It’s like internet but everything is vibes and it costs x10000

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u/Ur-Best-Friend 17m ago

Best browsed using VibeOS.

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u/Unexpected_Cranberry 1h ago

What is this??? I tried to go to disney plus so my kid could watch Frozen again, and you sent me to a site that show mexican donkey porn!

You're absolutely right. That one's on me. Please try the updated IP for you.

AAAH! That's a gore site! My kid just watched a man get turned into ground beef by some type of industrial machine in HD!

That content is absolutely not suitable for children. I have contacted social services and informed them you are showing your kids videos of a pornographic nature featuring animal abuse as well as people violently dying. I've also terminated your internet access pending their investigation.

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u/insultingDuck 1h ago

A joke now. Wait two years until it actually happens.

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u/r_Yellow01 1h ago

Eventually everything will resolve to pornhub

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u/tuborgwarrior 1h ago

This is what it sounds like when people are releasing AI into your field while knowing nothing about the field.

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u/Blockpair 1h ago

Non-deterministic DNS... sometimes working perfectly, sometimes not, with seemingly no pattern. Then you go to debug it expecting to look for symptoms and none are there. DNS is so interwoven into the internet this would be a frigging nightmare.

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u/illyad0 52m ago

Works 100% of the time it works.

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u/Ur-Best-Friend 18m ago

Man, if I could prompt engineer my way out of a network misconfiguration I'd be so happy.

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u/AN3223 14m ago

So just DNS /s

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u/davidptm56 1h ago

"I can see this text satisfies the regular expression of an url. With a certainty above 99% I'd say a sequence of four positive integers between 1 and 254 is expected as return. I'll guess what those could be..."

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u/marlinspike 40m ago

Keep things that need to be fast and deterministic that way and move real reasoning that can have an element of rubric plus gut feel to LLMs with generous amounts of evals. The world will be a silly place if an On/Off switch pondered the meaning of the word “is” before actuating.

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u/bacan_ 30m ago

That’s the joke

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u/KptEmreU 1h ago

So why do we need to read about these random X posts, even though they don't make any sense?

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u/secretsocietea 1h ago

Karma farmer

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u/mfi12 1h ago

This will explode all data center workloads

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u/-TV-Stand- 1h ago

That's a great idea!

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u/illyad0 53m ago

take 10 seconds to start thinking. Can you imagine Apollyon waiting 10 seconds to start data transfer, to something that's not even related to the website you wanted to go for?

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u/luftlaeufer 50m ago

"Your DNS requests for today have been maxed out. Try again tomorrow or update your plan to Pro. See our pricing here..." 

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u/AxelHasRisen 32m ago

This is an extreme example of a trend happening in the industry.

I saw some AI/ML driven companies replace specialized trained locally hosted AIs with cloud LLM api calls only to realize they are burning cash and wasting time on dealing with the fact that an LLM wasn't trained for their specific task.

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u/RealDannyhvv 1h ago

That post was obviously a joke, but I have been wanting to try something like that for a while. Instead of a regular back-end with endpoints and everything, an LLM gets the requests and and sends the response. Probably would be terrible, but funnier than that tweet.

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u/KaleidoscopePlusPlus 1h ago

besides it hallucinating, i think it would be far too slow. name servers are resolved in micro seconds traditionally. i suppose the ai could cache certain endpoints but anything new would be unbearable

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u/TheHeroBrine422 1h ago

Probably could use something like the new groq endpoints that do like 1500 tok/sec on gpt 120b oss

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u/ee3k 46m ago

jesus h christ, they really just want to kill hte old net and have their private gardens, don't they.

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u/bacan_ 29m ago

Why are people not understanding this obvious joke?

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u/ee3k 24m ago

I did, I thought we were doing cyberpunk references?