I still don’t get it, like, why tf would you use AI for this kind of thing? It can barely make a basic python script, let alone actually handle a proper codebase or detect a vulnerability, even if it is the most obvious vulnerability ever
What are the odds that you’re actually going to get a bounty out of it? Seems unlikely that an AI would hallucinate an actually correct bug.
Maybe the people doing this are much more optimistic about how useful LLMs are for this than I am but it’s possible that there’s some more malicious idea behind it.
Maybe the people doing this are much more optimistic about how useful LLMs are for this than I am
Yes. That is the problem being reported in this article. There are many many people who have complete and unblemished optimism about how useful LLMs are, to the point where they don’t understand it’s optimism and don’t understand why other people won’t take them seriously.
The user who submitted the report that Stenberg considered the “last straw” seems to have a history of getting bounty payouts; I have no idea how many of those were AI-assisted, but it’s possible that by using an LLM to automate making reports, they’re making some money despite having a low success rate.
We have several scientific articles being published and later found to have been generated via AI.
If somebody is willing to ruin their academic reputation, something that takes years to build, don’t you think people are also using AI to cheat at a job interview and land a high paying IT job?
I still don’t get it, like, why tf would you use AI for this kind of thing? It can barely make a basic python script, let alone actually handle a proper codebase or detect a vulnerability, even if it is the most obvious vulnerability ever
It’s simple actually, curl has a bug bounty program where reporting even a minor legitimate vulnerability can land you at a minimum $540
What are the odds that you’re actually going to get a bounty out of it? Seems unlikely that an AI would hallucinate an actually correct bug.
Maybe the people doing this are much more optimistic about how useful LLMs are for this than I am but it’s possible that there’s some more malicious idea behind it.
Yes. That is the problem being reported in this article. There are many many people who have complete and unblemished optimism about how useful LLMs are, to the point where they don’t understand it’s optimism and don’t understand why other people won’t take them seriously.
Some of them are professionals in related fields
The user who submitted the report that Stenberg considered the “last straw” seems to have a history of getting bounty payouts; I have no idea how many of those were AI-assisted, but it’s possible that by using an LLM to automate making reports, they’re making some money despite having a low success rate.
We have several scientific articles being published and later found to have been generated via AI.
If somebody is willing to ruin their academic reputation, something that takes years to build, don’t you think people are also using AI to cheat at a job interview and land a high paying IT job?