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The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes
An average picture that you save on your phone or PC has a size of around 400 kilobytes. It doesn't do anything, it's just a static image. Now divide that by the factor 10, so you drop to 40 kilobytes. That's the size of The Last Ninja, developed by System 3 and published in
Wait, let me get this straight: “there’s no solution” to this apparent giant problem but you work for a company that got bought by an AI corp because you had a solution? Make it make sense.
If you did not solve it why were you bought?
Simon, I know you're the AI bigwig but I'm not sure that's correct. I know that's the "story" (but maybe just where the AI labs would prefer we look?). How realistic is it really that MCP/tools/web search is being corrupted by people to steal prompts/convos like this? I really think this is such low prop. And if it does happen, the flaw is the AI labs for letting something like this occur.
Respect for your writing, but I feel you and many others have the risk calculus here backwards.
I think people's focus on the threat model from AI corps is wrong. They are not going to "steal your precious SSH/cloud/git credentials" so they can secretly poke through your secret-sauce, botnet your servers or piggy back off your infrastructure, lol of lols. Similarly the possibility of this happening from MCP tool integrations is overblown.
This dangerous misinterpretation of the actual possible threats simply better conceals real risks. What might those real risks be? That is the question. Might they include more subtle forms of nastiness, if anything at all?
I'm of the belief that there will be no nastiness, not really. But if you believe they will be nasty, it at least pays to be rational about the ways in which that might occur, no?