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Hot fridges, a fake nuclear alert and a $6bn heist: are we in the foothills of a hacking epidemic? (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 24 points 2 days ago (4 children)

They're already trying to sell AI as the solution to the problem it caused. It'll just increase the cost of making anything "smart", in use or development.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    The funniest thing about this is that there's no way a human can keep up with this increase in cybersecurity flaws and vulnerabilities that are being discovered, but at the same time, there is no parity between cybersecurity defense and attack.

    Regardless of efforts, we're still going to be in a losing battle for quite a while.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    You act like this is a new problem with technology. It's not.

    When one country figures out how to make guns, the other country doesn't just say "You know what... I'm going to stick with the same sword and shield warfare." No, they figure out how to make guns of their own, and figure out defenses that are appropriate to gun warfare. It is the new norm, and everybody else must account for it.

    When the Internet popped into the public zeitgeist, some companies were slow to adopt but pretty soon, everybody had a website. Those that didn't adapt to this new technology failed as a business and died.

    This is an adaptation problem, and unless people take it seriously, there will be one side that uses LLMs to their advantage and one side that doesn't.

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  • [–] 1 point 23 hours ago

    I think people's reactions are a spectrum (like what else in life is not?). There are the AI cultists who believe the marketing lies of AI companies that AI is sentinent and allmighty, able to solve every problem on earth as long as the companies get more money to burn. And there are the AI enemies who deny AI has any use besides disrupting the job market, wasting ressources and enslave the masses. I guess both extremes are wrong and the sane ground lies between the two.

    The problem is that most average citizens are so illiterare with technology that they believe the marketing until proven otherwise... the narrative is shaped by media and media influence can be bought (with investor money). The fact that many reporters don't know what current "AI" is also isn't particulary helpful.

    I think it's like the .com-Bubble: The Bubble will burst, many enthusiasts will lose a lot of money... but we'll keep using and developing specialized tools in areas where they actually create a ROI worth having.

    I also don't know if your sword-gun-comparisson works out as there are first results that imply that using AI for every task doesn't necessarily makes the user more efficent but also dumper as he/she isn't challenged cognitively anymore. I wouldn't say this is an advantage for the individual per default.

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