Comment on AI will compromise your cybersecurity posture

• RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There wasn’t, but it’s not the first article you wrote that I read, and I know your stance on general purpose computing. Why is a general purpose language model somehow a bigger problem?

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  • rysiek@szmer.info ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So, your strategy here was to purposefully make a convenient strawman ragebait of “we should ban general computing” – something that has exactly zero to do with the blogpost – and then ask a trick question? Clearly you are not here to have a conversation in good faith. Why bother?

    But please do elaborate what my “stance on general purpose computing” is? Genuinely curious.

    Regarding the question of why LLMs are “somehow a bigger problem”, I never said they are a “bigger problem”. I did not compare them to anything. Comparing LLMs to “general purpose computing” is like comparing hypermarkets to “the market economy” (and just before you go on another red herring quest: I said “market economy” not “capitalism”, that’s a whole different conversation). It makes no sense.

    Hypermarkets are one possible artifact of the market economy, and LLMs are one possible artifact of general purpose computing. That does not change the fact that hypermarkets have huge issues attached to them. Just as LLMs have huge issues attached to them.

    We can have general purpose computing while recognizing these issues, just as we can have market economy while recognizing issues with hypermarkets. What I wrote about in the blogpost is a particular set of the issues related to LLMs, in the context of a deluge of hype trying to convince us somehow LLMs can break passwords (they can’t), exploit vulnerabilities (they can’t) and autonomously orchestrate cyber-attacks (again, they can’t).

    They add a shit-ton of attack surface due to their complexity, and will end up being a larger security problem. Honestly not sure what’s so controversial here?

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    • RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, I definitely had a long term strategy when posting an internet comment.

      But please do elaborate what my “stance on general purpose computing” is? Genuinely curious.

      My feeling is you’re pro general purpose computing and against censorship. Which is why it’s strange to see you make fun of a provider for not censoring their product enough. I was referring only to that part of the article.

      I see your stand from the comment above though, I’m not going to argue that. Peace.

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      • rysiek@szmer.info ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I see your stand from the comment above though, I’m not going to argue that. Peace.

        Which is good because calling making a tech product safe “censorship” is a pretty fraught position to defend.

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