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This new messaging is interesting. LLM “AI” keeps getting shown to be fundamentally flawed and weak. Now, they’re acting like it’s rogue, sentient AI that decides to hack companies randomly. I don’t buy it for a second.
I keep saying the same thing over and over that people don't seem to understand. It's not smarter than people. It's infinitely faster. If you hired 100 engineers and security professionals, and gave them a year, they could hack into a bunch of companies too.
Or you can churn a bunch of tokens and accomplish the equivalent overnight.
What I think happened is that, they had their AI model analyze the source code, have it work to find vulnerabilities, and then used those to attack systems