I suspect we will eventually get to a point where the engineers working on "AI" - at least, those working on the few applications that actually make the #companies #money - are going to start doing what many engineers working in the "defence" #industry do: obfuscating. Lying. To avoid others knowing what they actually do with their days.

"What do you do?"

"I design bomb casements for cluster munitions, to increase the total number of civilian casualties when despots use them against non-military targets" tends to get you #shunned at parties, so they say "Oh, I do structural steel work" or something else non-specific.

Similarly, "I develop language models that keep helpless customers occupied until they give up in frustration so the companies can lay off most of their customer-support staff" isn't going to be a popular announcement to all those at the party whose jobs were destroyed by "AI".

"Oh, I develop and apply algorithms to novel problems."

"Oh, I do data analysis."

"Oh, I'm a plumber."

#AI #LLM #jobs #shame #shun #engineer #software #vendor #unemployment #lying #obfuscating #layoffs #plumber

Michael Karcher (#OSINT #ReverseEngineer) about #xz #backdoor #obfuscating #regex:

"the code does not contain any ASCII strings, neither in clear text nor in obfuscated form. Instead, it recognizes all relevant strings using one single deterministic finite automaton..." (DFA ~= regex)

"... script that decodes the tables for the table-driven DFA and outputs the strings recognized by it accompanied with the "ID" assigned to the terminal accepting state"
https://github.com/karcherm/xz-malware