Mastodawn

This "careful" "AI Safety" company that just accidentally leaked its entire source code to the world is the one that African governments are entering into agreements with to include in infrastructures from health care to god knows what.

These are the products people have to use to make sure that they don't get dinged in their performance reviews for "not using AI."

These are the products teachers have to use in schools so that "students aren't left behind."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/01/anthropic-claudes-code-leaks-ai

Claude’s code: Anthropic leaks source code for AI software engineering tool

Nearly 2,000 internal files were briefly leaked after ‘human error’, raising fresh security questions at the AI company

The Guardian

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Timnit Gebru (she/her).10h ago

I appreciated this article by @mttaggart
infosec.exchange.

I get the temptation especially in this world we're all living in where you have to produce something super fast all the time.

But my question is, what are people's arguments for how functioning software can be created with these tools?

What about new architectures, new ways of thinking, new programming languages, etc? Who will create those?

https://taggart-tech.com/reckoning/

I used AI. It worked. I hated it.

I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means.

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Timnit Gebru (she/her).10h ago

I'm not even talking about the data stealing, exploitation, environmental pillaging, pollution, environmental racism etc.

I'm talking about the way people use the tools. Like what do advocates of using these tools say will happen to software engineering in the future? That it just won't need to exist because everyone will be able to create software using these tools?

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Carlo Gubitosa

5h ago

@timnitGebru I use AI without paying evil corps to learn new things in my home lab playground, I was shocked by the errors that I was able to spot because of my background as telecommunication engineer, I am terrified thinking that corporate greed could lead to employ low-skilled people to generate low-quality code even for high-sensitivity tasks, I wonder how FLOSS communities can keep this “code disease” out of their repos, but I’m relieved because of voices like yours.

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refraction

@gubi @timnitGebru they are already doing it. and we're gonna live with the consequences. they don't need to care if they keep data secure as long as it mainly hurts their users because they made us dependent on them already so we don't have much choice.