When I started in security, one of the prevailing attitudes was "The weakest link in the chain will always be the human."

I would like to thank every LLM provider and startup for changing this paradigm by introducing a much weaker link in the chain.

Thank you to everyone saying "it's still the human."

No, it isn't. It's product deployment without any concern for security or impact. This is the equivalent of suggesting every customer catch a falling knife, for their own benefit.

This is nondeterministic, autonomous malicious enablement, and we cannot blame the user as much as I'd like to.

@neurovagrant

I'd say it's still a human. But it's not the user, it's the product deployer.

In my worldview, responsibility always, and only, lands on humans

@jztusk Uh, well, I guess you disagree with the idiom, then, because there are no links in the chain that are not humans
@neurovagrant one of these days I need to sit down and write a blog post about how I have a blade that is cheap as hell, but more safe than any other blade I’ve owned, and how that relates to… everything.
@neurovagrant How is that not still the human? Didn't humans decide to let AI run entire systems without anyone watching.
FFS, Tencent's shares just skyrocketed for saying their deploying OpenClaw which is _known_ to be destructive and have massive security vulnerabilities.

@neurovagrant Why do you surrender agency so readily?

We are and remain masters of our world.

So much of the slopocalypse is shitty CEOs catering to dumb investors who arrogantly yet wrongfully think they know a damn thing about IT. All a very (if deplorably) human thing.

That said, your post is funny and I like it a lot.

@renardboy @neurovagrant no way. Nobody back home is going to believe me when I tell them I saw an actual bus