Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned so many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
babe wake uppp new fearmongering just dropped
Ugh, Iām so fucking tired of this shit.
I can imagine that an LLM can find bugs. Bugs often follow common patterns, and if anything, an LLM is a pattern matcher, so if you let it run on the whole world of open source code out there, Iām sure itāll find some stuff, and some of it might be legit issues.
But static code analysis tools have been finding bugs for decades, too. And now that an AI slop machine does it, itās supposed to bring about dystopian sci-fi alien wars?
Why are people hyped about that?
(Also this poster makes wrong claims about every exploit being worth millions and such, but the rest of it is so much more ridiculous, it drowns out the wrongness of those claims.)
also completely leaving out important context on the Iran/stuxnet example, in that it was a joint effort between two countries believed to have been in development for five years. The idea that AIs will engage in lightspeed wars and disable all critical infrastructure in a single day while speaking in alien languages and creating alliances is unreasonable extrapolation of the capabilities. Also completely ignored the segment where the Anthropic team implemented safeguards and communicated with the teams behind the software to patch out the bugs. Itās the most blatant fearmongering ever. Thank god the comments contain reasonable responses and breakdowns of the post. That channelās way of highlighting papers just pisses me off
also ignoring that natanz was actually effectively airgapped, and was knowingly infected by another countryās contractorās usb stick, working on behalf of dutch intelligence service
til that youtube now features āpostsā
ā¦sigh
Going to youtube for the posts is the perfect inverse of reading playboy for the articles.
community posts have been a thing for like, two years now? three?
I guess my youtube allergy is even stronger than I thought!
(I donāt log in, and I keep it in entirely stateless windows)
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āa zero day is an unknown backdoorā this shows both that they are trying to explain things to absolute noobs, and that they themselves dont know what they are talking about, a zero dayvis just a vulnerability which was not know to the people maintaining system. A backdoor is quite something else.
Also fuzzers also found āzero day backdoorsā and they didnt end the world.