The system’s power is comparable to others – but it still has frightening implications for the future of hacking
  • Arrandee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4 hours

    Enjoy your access to this technology before the bigger players do something that “disrupts” your capability to:

    • Use electricity
    • Afford computers
    • Have time to think about stuff other than food & shelter
    • Get access to medicine
    • Discern truth from fiction for anything you’re not directly experiencing

    We’re on a razor’s edge balanced between dystopia and a sci-fi dream, and we keep getting pushed in the wrong direction by the tech debt and social/economic conventions of the 20th century. We need to tool up while we remain in this transitional phase. It might be very bad later. There’s a chance it might be awesome too. Expect the worst, hope for the best.

    • belochka@lemmy.worldEnglish
      40 minutes

      Electricity you can expect to always be there, and computers too, they are a staple technology by now, it’s like paper. I’m talking personal computers, because with microcontrollers and specialized signal processors and so on nobody even thinks about them.

      Food and shelter and medicine - by the measure people had 100 years ago, it’ll never be bad in developed countries.

      The last point, about discerning truth from fiction, is the important one, because for that purpose things are and are going to be just the same way as they were 100 years ago and 200 years ago and so on back. There have been a few decades when it seemed that we can do that without authoritative chain of proof, from, in case of a criminal investigation, police assembling facts following due process, them being registered and vetted and verified following due process, everything being documented following due process, then court proceedings and so on. Eh, as someone from former USSR, I feel funny typing this. Well, not entirely, for non-political things this was followed very rigorously even there.

      So - we’ve had a timespan of few decades when techno-optimism was misused to erode common respect for due process and following chain of trust in establishing facts.

      That’s also a problem with mass media, both with freedom of press and press neutrality and ethics and reputation.

      We’ll have a bit of a rough ride until, very slowly through collective experience, we’ll have it as good as before the Internet (the Internet is fine, it’s more about people being eager to believe that technology can remove deontological and social and other philosophical components).

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.caEnglish
    4 hours

    As AI is leaned on more and more to patch and defend against vulnerabilities, the value in sneaking back door logic into the models or finding vulnerabilities in the models themselves will increase.

    This is one of the reasons for the sharp increase in CI/CD attacks currently; instead of targeting the deployed software, attackers are now targeting the development pipeline where they know there’s minimal human oversight and a lot of security protections are intentionally disabled.