i love that we went from "zero trust" as a fundamental buzzword to "trust autonomous nondeterministic agents everywhere in your stack"

@neurovagrant Trust No one was on seemingly every poster.

What happened?!

@neurovagrant Damn. I haven’t seen this expressed so perfectly.
Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website

A newly granted Google patent could let the search giant replace your brand's landing page with an AI-generated version you have no control over and only your buyers see.

Forbes

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Autonomous agents designed to follow "instructions" regardless of source. So there is really no defense against "agent (command) injection" attacks.

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@neurovagrant I'm sure some people even combine these 2 at once
@neurovagrant zero trust except for our slop machines
@neurovagrant Jensen Huang piping some random site into his | bash for the LOSE.
@bms48 @neurovagrant I was just coming here to mention that. you win :)
@usagijer @neurovagrant It was actually @bagder who pointed me at that on (ugh, spit) LinkedIn.
@neurovagrant I still think your last observation about humans no longer being the weakest link in the chain is everything wrong with LLMs and I'll die on that hill.

@neurovagrant y'all remember the old demotivator memes from the early 2000s?

One of them read "None of us is as dumb as all of us." LLMs are non-deterministic balls of shit put together with the absolute dumbest takes from Reddit and StackExchange, thrown into that non-deterministic blender, to shit out what is probably the most awful code known to man. None of us is as dumb as all of us.

@da_667 oh my god, i remember those.

it came to pass. this can't be good.

@neurovagrant @da_667 I mean, there's still an outlier on the stupidity front.

The problem is they're the dictator with the 'most powerful military in the world.'

@rootwyrm @neurovagrant The minute his obituary is announced I'm just going to post the first sentences you see in the game, Brigador:

Great leader is dead.

Solo Nobre Must Fall

Welcome, Brigador

@da_667 @neurovagrant I used to have a powerpoint of them all. 

@da_667 @neurovagrant That one was Meetings from https://despair.com/collections/posters/products/meetings

I have a big lithograph of Idiocy (a ring of skydivers captioned “Beware the power of stupid people in large groups.”).

For a while, they sold a shirt labeled “Insecurity”.

Meetings

@neurovagrant Checks out.
@davep thanks, i hate it.

@neurovagrant

Just in case you missed the LinkedIn Speak translator...

https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en_gb&to=linkedin&text=let%27s+go+

Kagi Translate

Kagi Translate uses powerful AI models to instantly and accurately translate any content in any language.

@neurovagrant Yikes. Just saw it uses AI. BOLLOCKS.
@neurovagrant Actually, I don't mind so much when AI is used for this sort of thing. It's more focused, inherently nondeterministic, and can be a much smaller model trained using wannabe psychopaths on LinkedIn.
@neurovagrant "zero trust" was questionable bullshit even then. The implication of "zero trust" was to not trust the *human element*, to privilege the code over the human. Now that the tech bros are close to removing the human element entirely, the mask is off.

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They distrust humans due to their fallibility and potential ulterior motives, while they believe 'AI' to be an objective machine.

It's a weird situation where they both anthropomorphise algorithms by ascribing intelligence and intent to them, while at the same time relying on the fact that they're algorithms as a reassurance that they are objective mathematical and logical tools.

It's cherrypicking the best of both worlds – simultaneously supposedly thinking and infallible.

@neurovagrant 'Zero trust' has always been about potentially nefarious human intentions and sabotage, and since so-called 'AI' cannot have intentions and are supposedly merely doing what they're told as they are programs, they are considered inherently trustworthy.

The problem is that they think of 'AI' in terms of a traditional program: we know what it does because we programmed it, so it cannot do anything it's not supposed to do, unlike a human.

They ignore the black-box nature of 'AI'.

@neurovagrant RCE as core business value
@neurovagrant I'd love to see how that works out.
@neurovagrant And—of course—providing government ID to every random website for ✨safety✨
@neurovagrant @blogdiva imo "zero trust" was only marketing spin for "trust only me"