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bcvvvy 5 hours ago

We enabled the disease and provided the vaccine!

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Noaidi 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The AI economy profits solely off of the broken window fallacy.

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gruez 3 hours ago | parent [-]

But the window was arguably already broken? The opposite would be something like the "bury-head-in-sand economy"?

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Noaidi 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Here is an old Daoist story to ponder:

In taking precautions against thieves who cut open satchels, search bags, and break open boxes, people are sure to cord and fasten them well, and to employ strong bonds and clasps; and in this they are ordinarily said to show their wisdom. When a great thief comes, however, he shoulders the box, lifts up the satchel, carries off the bag, and runs away with them, afraid only that the cords, bonds, and clasps may not be secure; and in this case what was called the wisdom (of the owners) proves to be nothing but a collecting of the things for the great thief.

http://nothingistic.org/library/chuangtzu/chuang24.html

	▲	pixl97 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Trying to make any story too simple makes it worthless. True or false: LLMs can find security vulnerabilities? True or false: LLMs can exploit security vulnerablities? True or false: Any nation with significant resources can make an LLM? For me these are all true. The last one in specific completely removes the concept of theft and changes it to "enemy nation". Enemy nations can be great thieves, and it's irrelevant, if you don't protect yourself against them you die and everything of yours is stolen. LLMs are not going away, well, except for you and me maybe. Every state wants to wield digital and informational weapons like this.
	▲	bcvvvy 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Ergo, leave your data at home.

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ex1fm3ta 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

hmmm not sure about this one, the disease was already there it just available to anynone (not only for state sponsored actors) and the vaccine is globally available at a fraction of what it cost to build it.

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Noaidi 4 hours ago | parent [-]

The disease is unleashing these powerful AI tools to the public before even thinking about the risks.

	▲	ex1fm3ta 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Automated vulnerability detection existed long before the era of artificial intelligence; many people have been doing this for a long time. All the existing tools and documentation paved the way for what AI is capable of today. Furthermore, undisclosed vulnerabilities still do exist—often discovered by state-sponsored actors who exploit them for opaque purposes (frequently operating outside the legal framework of the country in question).