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  • With rootless containers, even root in the container is basically useless anyway because it truly runs as a fake ID on the host.

    I’ve seen this repeated a lot, but I’m not really convinced running as root inside containers is a good/safe thing to do. User namespaces can provide some protection for the host, but that does nothing for the rest of the files inside the guest. For example, consider a server software with an arbitrary file write vulnerability. If the process is running as a low privilege user, exploiting the vulnerability might not really get you anywhere. If it’s running as root, it’s basically a free pass to root privilege and arbitrary code execution within the container.












  • At a very high level, training is something like:

    • generate some output
    • give the output a score based on how much it looks like real human text
    • adjust the parameters slightly to improve the score
    • repeat

    Step #2 is also exactly what an “AI detector” does. If someone is able to write code that reliably distinguishes between AI and human text, then AI developers would plug it in to that training step in order to improve their AI.

    In other words, if some theoretical machine perfectly “knows” the difference between generated and human text, then the same machine can also be used to make text that is indistinguishable from human text.