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Anthropic says its latest AI model is too powerful for public release and that it broke containment during testing (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It may not be completely crazy, depending on context. With something like a web app, if data is being sanitized in the client-side Javascript, someone malicious could absolutely comment that out (or otherwise bypass it).

With that said, many consultant-types are either pretty clueless, or seem to feel like they need to come up with something no matter how ridiculous to justify the large sums of money they charged.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    In this case, there was file a, which is the backend file responsible for intake and sanitation. Depending on what's next, it might go on to file b or file c. He modified file a.

    His rationale was that every single backend file should do sanitation, because at some future point someone might make a different project and take file b and pair it with some other intake code that didn't sanitize.

    I know all about client side being useless for meaningful security enforcement.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    I have to say that is pretty dumb. I will agree the scenario isn't completely implausible, but if someone who doesn't know what they are doing is allowed to do something like that, they're going to screw up other stuff too.

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