There's one very important thing I would like everyone to try to remember this week, and it is that AI companies are full of shit

[griotspeak@soc.mod-12.com]

@jenniferplusplus First thought I had when I read about this was “how is *Anthropic* a credible source for this?”

[dngrs@chaos.social]

@budududuroiu @jenniferplusplus some people have published numbers or noticed "a significant increase in quality" but none of these things bear any scientific rigor. My guess is that the one huge trick anthropic pulled was merely a bigger context window. Sure, that tends to give more context-related (not "true" or "accurate") results (duh!) but it's hardly revolutionary. LLMs are still statistical models doing fancy autocomplete & they know nothing about the world, I'll hold my breath

[budududuroiu@hachyderm.io]

@mirth That's fair, I do personally believe that Anthropic is more ideologically driven than most frontier AI labs, and they genuinely believe in the need to gatekeep Mythos. Sometimes that manifests itself as sniffing too many of your own farts.

@jenniferplusplus

[jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io]

@budududuroiu the same people would tell you the "industry consensus" among the rest of tech is that chatbots made programming dramatically more productive. The reality is that they mostly automate the creation of those same bugs and vulnerabilities

So, you know

Maybe wake me up when they're organizing this thing with someone who's not in the same trillion dollar hole as them

[budududuroiu@hachyderm.io]

@jenniferplusplus Finding problems vs. fixing them are two different bags of burritos. Zero days aren't valuable because they're so complex or unique, they're valuable because there have been zero days to fix them. I think AI coding is pretty trash, but AI debugging is very good.

daniel:// stenberg:// (@bagder@mastodon.social)

@pemensik@fosstodon.org @dirkhh@hachyderm.io the AIs are still better at finding problems than fixing them, in my experience

Mastodon (mastodon.social)

Anyways, wake up, they're organising this thing with someone not in the same trillion dollar hole as them: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/project-glasswing-gives-maintainers-advanced-ai-to-secure-open-source

[codinghorror@infosec.exchange]

@jenniferplusplus I would like to remind everyone that Misanthropic and that little bitch Claude are among the worst actors out there, because it's a cult. An amoral, do-anything-to-win cult that actually believes they are building "sentient life". Which is totally insane. https://www.404media.co/anthropic-exec-forces-ai-chatbot-on-gay-discord-community-members-flee/

[budududuroiu@hachyderm.io]

@the_decryptor I think so too, but I think that's the effective way to use LLMs, like a "magic" glue that can tie together or stack processes like Legos.

I think they also mentioned this in the blog, related to Mythos being capable enough to chain together tools AND vulnerabilities to achieve objectives.

@jenniferplusplus

[chrisp@cyberplace.social]

@jenniferplusplus "Our new model is too dangerous for the public, we couldn't possibly release it! Anyway, you can subscribe to it for $150 a month."

[wolfkin@mastodon.social]

@jenniferplusplus any presumed competence on the behalf of an AI company is typically the work of impoverished humans in South Asian or South East Asia.

[bms48@mastodon.social]

@younata @jenniferplusplus That last one was Carl Sagan. I have @emilymbender 's and @Katecrawford 's books on my table to read in the abundant free time I never have now

[jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io]

@budududuroiu yes, I noticed when you included them the first time. The Linux Foundation is a clearing house for coordination between everyone else on that list. They don't even consider kernel maintenance or distribution to be within the scope of their interests. They don't do what most people imagine they do

[jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io]

A couple people seem very invested in me being wrong about this assessment. All I can say is that this would be the first time I have misclassified an AI claim as bullshit

[androcat@toot.cat]

@jenniferplusplus Literally seconds ago I wrote elsewhere: "first rule of LLMs: If someone from an LLM company says their model can do x, it can't do x, but it includes some thoughts and prayers to please do x."

[budududuroiu@hachyderm.io]

@jenniferplusplus Yes, of course, no true Scotsman.

We're getting off topic here, RHEL is saying it's a problem, major Linux kernel devs like Greg Kroah-Hartman say AI vuln reports have been getting real, my own anecdotal experience trying to constrain Claude from leaking `.env` files into it's context, and seeing the creative ways in which it still achieves it tells me it's a problem.

I get that cynicism is running high right now, but I think it's intellectually dishonest.

EDIT: you don't need super-intelligence, you only need a model that makes researching zero days en-masse cheap enough. Exhaustive fuzzing is intractable, but LLMs are great optimisers (i.e. modify code hyperparameter, rerun, select most fit candidates from population of algos).

Navigating the Mythos-haunted world of platform security

The preview release of Claude Mythos presents a massive challenge for IT security experts, as well as an opportunity. Mythos' capabilities to identify complex memory safety issues and logic flaws hidden in legacy code as well as exploit them in increasingly sophisticated ways dramatically compounds and expands the outsize role AI scanning plays in open source. As an industry, we cannot react to this seismic shift with panic; instead, we need to reinforce the need for system resilience through context, skill and, ultimately, using AI ourselves.

(www.redhat.com)

[androcat@toot.cat]

@budududuroiu

Keep chugging that flavor aid.

[dazfuller@mstdn.social]

@jenniferplusplus but what about when their models created a full C compiler… oh, right.

But what about when they said software development would be dead in 6-12 months… oh, again.

You know, it’s almost like they have an over active marketing team

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@jenniferplusplus "But if you're wrong this time and we don't panic and trust the slop salesman that he has a super duper vuln finder, we're all gonna get pwned!!!!!111111"

[jedbrown@hachyderm.io]

@jenniferplusplus It's also important that to whatever extent this product actually works (I'm as skeptical as you are), it fundamentally preferences the attacker. The product has way too many false positives to run in CI, so the defender can only use it as part of an occasional audit. The attacker doesn't care about CI or development friction, and wins by finding one exploit in an entire stack, even if they have to wade through many false positives to find it.

[rrb@infosec.exchange]

@jenniferplusplus my favorite is the recent demand to drop pdf file format, because the genius llm's can not parse them

[androcat@toot.cat]

@dngrs @budududuroiu @jenniferplusplus

People keep getting tricked by framing.
LLM companies frame what the models are doing as something else than what it is (autocomplete), and people whose competence is not in epistemic evaluation then look at the results based on the framing, rather than "this is autocomplete, it has to answer something, so it makes something up".

And then other people take those soundbites and run with them.
"Did you hear? Mr. Big Name said this stuff really works!"