Agentic AI-based services are the new Shadow IT. Change my mind.
I'd argue that very few companies have any real appreciation for how many of their employees are already feeding API keys and other stuff into fairly new and questionable agentic AI tools or platforms. So many companies are like, oh we're taking a wait-and-see approach to adopting AI. Meanwhile, half their dev team is doing critical development work on shared servers that have no authentication or limited (no 2fa) auth.

@briankrebs I am also really curious how many people have aggressively violated various privacy laws by feeding stuff into various LLMs for "summary" and "analysis".

Frankly it should be a much larger compliance nightmare than it is. (Or, I suppose, it *is* a ginormous compliance nightmare and just right now everyone's thinking it isn't. Incorrectly)

@wordshaper @briankrebs Unfortunately, I don't think the people doing this care or will ever care. Privacy laws tend to be a joke anyways and there is very little incentive for most people/companies to change. I don't think most governments even want that to change. It's better for them, allows more data collection, etc.

I wish I didn't have such a negative and cynical outlook on it all.

@mrmoore @briankrebs HIPAA has some teeth and frankly I would be shocked if a bunch of attorneys *haven't* violated their professional oaths. More importantly, while the US may be a privacy nightmare the EU and UK do have a bit more to say on the matter, with regulations that have teeth.
@wordshaper @briankrebs While HIPAA does have some teeth, it leaves a lot to be desired. There is a lot more ways around HIPAA than people imagine. I think EU is definitely better than the US in terms of privacy, you can already see many problems coming from EU. Parts of GDPR could be rolled back, Chat Control initiatives, etc.