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Self-hosting, data sovereignty and cyberattacks [AIT] (aussie.zone)
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https://lemmy.world/post/49736885

If you follow AI news at all as part of your self-hosting interests, you may have become aware recently that open AI (the frontier lab between behind chat GPT) has admitted (loosely) culpability in an cyber attack against HuggingFace (the major repository of open-weight models.)

The details that present are somewhat sketchy, but the gist of it is that open AI seems to have given unrestricted access to a AI agent, which then attacked hugging face, who in a twist of deliciousness, used an open source agent to defend themselves.

I'd joke and tell you to make sure that you haven't left any open ports on your router, but if you're here reading this I think probably you know better than that.

Less comically, there's a weird intersection here between self-hosting, sovereignty and encroachment by big tech that is worth pay attention to.

It should certainly spur people on to seriously consider self-hosting as much of their infrastructure as they can (and securing it) if this is the preview of things to come.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

I just wish I'd bought more SSDs.

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[–] silver@das-eck.haus 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The takeaway here is that anything connected to the internet can probably be compromised. Am I crazy for thinking that? I don't think my home lab can keep up with openAI's new attack dogs if huggingface can't either

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago

Not at all. Anything an attacker can connect to is a potential vector.

Keep in mind, this goes for outbound connections as well. If something is compromised server-side, and you or your software reach out to it, that's also a potential vector. Less likely, since the attacker has to compromise that server and pass their attack off as legit traffic, but it's possible.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Am I crazy for thinking that?

I don't think so. It's one of the reasons I go overboard in my server security and monitor my pfsense logs constantly.