I know Mastodon hates LLM's and AI. So here goes!

I recently got access to trusted access of cyber capabilities of both openai and anthropic, which also allows you to weaponize security vulnerabilities.

The speed at which these parrots can find bugs and be creative enough to exploit them is staggering.

I recently pointed an LLM at an kernel fix that was reachable by an unprivileged namespace on Debian and it fully weaponized it, without too much me prompting it in the right direction, in about 7-9 hours.

I don't think open-source and companies will know what's coming for them once these open-source weight models will have broader reach and get better at exploiting vulnerabilities on a massive scale as anyone can access them.

The bottom line I think is, you cannot patch faster than the attackers can easily chain all kinds of vulnerabilities together and just move laterally on an incredibly fast pace.

I've started reporting vulnerabilities to all kinds of projects and the majority have trouble or patching issues found. There's not enough maintainers, or there's simply none anymore.

I've been getting quite worried about what our future will look like for data privacy. I think outright not running an LLM over your codebase to find critical security vulnerabilities because of your moral stance will keep us more insecure.

Please run an LLM over your code base if it's internet facing or something critical, we thank you!

Can't wait for the discussions on this!

@drwhax What will any of this matter when we have turned the planet into a desert and caused our own extinction level event? There is an assumption that we will have access to electricity for any of this conversation to matter; when every day people have to deal with over 100° hot weather, rolling black outs, and drinking water restricted for anyone not rich/wealthy?

But let's keep protecting the people that made these problems and continue to make them worse. Justifying another technology built on theft and slave labor, I don't understand how anyone can be okay with that. We cannot separate the technology from its history, negative environmental impact, and that this technology is another scam to hoard even more wealth. The companies are using Enron's tactics for money and the packaging of debt into bad deals like 2008 in the USA is leading us to a very difficult time, where once again, these conversations will not matter as people will br trying to just survive.