da_667This is a very eloquently written adventure into what most of us know as ai fuckery. I don't want to ruin it for you. Read it yourself, please.
I'm always learning something from @mttaggart , and this is no exception.
I feel as though I'm in a similar position. I detest that this technology exists. The same way that I detest web3 exists. The same way that I detest how absolutely abysmal the cloud/CDNS are when we had an opportunity to make REAL CHANGE in internet-scale computing. The same way we all hate every major change in tech that is extremely poorly thought out.
I've actively avoided it, except in cases in which I used it to check for, and I'm not making this up, plagiarism/cheating in take-home exam for an internship position on our security team. Let me tell you how disheartening it is to find five different candidates from five different prestigious universities from around the country, all regurgitating the exact same incorrect answers from ChatGPT/Copilot.
I weep for critical thinking. I weep for I don't know. But I want to learn more.
and now, all I can see is all of the new ways in which this technology is actively being abused, actively being exploited, and actively shitting out new cancerous bullshit that we have the be the ones to safeguard the rest of the internet from.
The exact same as cloud computing/ devops tools that allow people shoot themselves in the foot with a fucking GAU-8.
The same way that DoH was hailed as a privacy resolution, and not even the RFC mentions privacy as a primary design choice.
The same way that Lets encrypt was heralded as new beginning for web safety, but certificate revocation is censorship, and that's your fucking problem.
The same way that cryptocurrency scams are fucking EVERYWHERE, and cryptocurrency stealers are now just a fact of life with malware these days.
The same way how ipfs is used to host boatloads of malicious shit FOREVER
The same way that AI has unmitigated access to all of your data without you having a say, and shitting out non-deterministic trash that will produce code that is both functional and entirely fucking alien, and yet you are the one that have to provide, test, and reinforce the guardrails so it doesn't fuck you and your entire company and your entire dataset into the sun or ... just delete whatever the fuck it wants. entire file systems, entire mail inboxes, what the fuck does it matter.
it is... an onerous task that I have to vaguely understand cryptocurrency, and I have to do detection engineering for threats against it. Eventually, and with the heaviest heart, and dullest sigh, I will start writing detection engineering for MCPs and other AI shittery. Because that's the job.
الجبر خوارزمی@da_667 lol have you seen the bloated shite that MCP is? you can justify that on the bandwidth savings