alt Hacker NewsThe invention of the locomotive was also the invention of the train wreck. V. The disaster is not just "open weight" model penetrating everything, its is that we have built the whole world around an IT revolution that never really reached maturity and became secure. The chickens are just coming home to roost. Those same entities would become gate keepers of the LLMs too.
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tick_tock_tick • yesterday at 8:24 PM
That sounds like some grand statement with answers. The inherent asymmetry of the attacker defender model means there will always be successful attackers.
arm32 • yesterday at 4:42 PM
I’m not sure I’ve ever heard of a locomotive being used as a weapon. Maybe a more apt comparison would be “nuclear fission invented nuclear fallout”, no?
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> we have built the whole world around an IT revolution that never really reached maturity and became secure
I don't disagree, but how does this relate to this incident, in practice? We're talking about a zero-day vulnerability here. What do you think should have happened - forbid any licensed IT practitioners from deploying PHP at all? No WordPress or Wikipedia?