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0 pointstaftster1mo ago0 comments

Well, I mean, the first part is a song by Don McLean called American Pie. You might know that, unsure that everyone will pick it out though.

One of the most famous play choices at karaoke bars these days too. I think because the song is a long story, of sorts? But it's a terribly long song and I will leave to take a smoke break anytime it gets chosen. You're going to be there for a good 10 minutes before it concludes.

So maybe the AI prompt was something like, "take CVE-2026-24061 and compose a song lyric in the style of American Pie by Don Mclean". I wonder if you would get similar results with that prompt.

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roywiggins1mo ago

The rest of it seems to be substantially edited by an LLM too, or at least it's composed much like LLM outputs often are these days: “not a gradual decline, not scanner attrition, not a data pipeline problem, but a step function.”

"Not X, not Y, not Z" is a common LLM tic, and there's a few more like it in there.

taftsterOP1mo ago

I mean, that's fair. I guess I just wanted to put my old man hat on. The song is a tribute to an era of lost innocence. Which I think is quite apropos to the current situation surrounding telnet. Vestiges of the days of the early internet continue to disappear, almost like an endangered species. Old/obsolete protocols, like telnet, are pined for by old guys like me.

roywiggins1mo ago

Oh, I have fond memories, I learned to touch-type playing MUDs.

ksherlock1mo ago

I was at a bar a few months back, drinking some brewskis with my broskis, and there was a guy with a guitar playing some songs. He started singing (bye bye miss) American Pie. Somewhere around the 4th verse he got stuck in a loop and sang that verse 3 or 4 times before he gave up.

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0 pointstaftster1mo ago0 comments

Well, I mean, the first part is a song by Don McLean called American Pie. You might know that, unsure that everyone will pick it out though.

So maybe the AI prompt was something like, "take CVE-2026-24061 and compose a song lyric in the style of American Pie by Don Mclean". I wonder if you would get similar results with that prompt.

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roywiggins1mo ago

"Not X, not Y, not Z" is a common LLM tic, and there's a few more like it in there.

taftsterOP1mo ago

roywiggins1mo ago

Oh, I have fond memories, I learned to touch-type playing MUDs.

ksherlock1mo ago

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