I've been job hunting for 2 months and it seems like every other post is an AI company underpaying for expert jobs.

NDA & compliance assured

"We'll show your code to anyone who asks but we won't say it's your code"

They basically ask you to steal your companies code repositories to feed their AI.

They're looking for authentic-looking projects that they can use to whitewash their LLM injection attack.

Two ways to leverage the projects:

1. They put in calls to their commercial toolkit or service, and the commits crow about what a performance boost the cutover was.
2. They put in calls to their vaguely useful library that is (or will soon be, on your next auto-update) full of rootkit and surveillance.

Then they wait for the LLMs to suck it in and start spitting it out into corporations who have Proton'd their engineering staff.

• Step 1: Write code you intend to Open Source.
• Step 2: Sell it to them.
• Step 3: Open Source it as soon as the check clears.

Free money.

How much?

this is basically phishing for idiots willing to sell their employer for few bucks (and commit a crime in the process), but even so, i have hard time seeing how this could work. they already scrapped all publicly available code in the world. now it is not realistic they would double that amount with this. also there is no guarantee (or even assumption) that the code they would get this way would be inherently of bigger quality than good open source.

so lets say they grow their training data by 10% - can that really make meaningful difference? combined with the fact they would now have to pay some real money for it?

Write a bot, to generate lines of plausible but bullshit code. Even if they pay 1p per 1000 lines . . . it'd be worth it just for the shits. Maybe even just random character strings, see if they'll pay for it.

Ok so you want to compress and store my proprietary code in your model which will then allow to to produce my proprietary code.

private code with commit history

At least they are honest. They have used most human open-source projects, and they can't use what AI puked. The next step is "We want to give you money every month (aka salary) and you will write code instead of our shitty AI."

Who thought EduGorilla was a good name?

AI is the only thing where every kind of knowledge goes in the same hole, the pretraining hole.

How much are they offering? 😄