I think what worries me is that AI allows the fraud barrier to entry to be lowered - malware is malware but ai built website with a landing page looks like some startup - now with veo3 you can even generate talking head video testimonials in an instant to go with a fake but auth looking gwebsite
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#12I think what worries me is that AI allows the fraud barrier to entry to be lowered - malware is malware but ai built website with a landing page looks like some startup - now with veo3 you can even generate talking head video testimonials in an instant to go with a fake but auth looking gwebsite
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#13Sadly it is almost inevitable we'll have another Bredolab-size botnet (30 mln computers, 1% of all) by cybercriminals but this time it'll be an AI botnet. As soon as AI components will be useful, they'll be in botnets. And with such a size, you have more compute than OpenAI and can train a frontier misaligned model or modify an open source one: The solution is to not just have 10% of compute in clouds like we have no…
>And with such a size, you have more compute than OpenAI and can train a frontier misaligned model or modify an open source one
That doesn't seem like a reasonable conclusion based on Open AI and leading lab expenditures. They need training data too, would one group actually be able to amass all of this? If you hijack 30 million random computers that's not as nearly as useful as 300K B200 GPUS for model training. Am I missing something?
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#15"Chatgpt is just the tip of the iceberg, here's 47 tools that.. "
https://x.com/JuvidX/status/1664756189689774080
One of the disadvantages of openness, everyone can fork or wrap the api, and mitm themselves at either no or minimal added value.
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#16I think what worries me is that AI allows the fraud barrier to entry to be lowered - malware is malware but ai built website with a landing page looks like some startup - now with veo3 you can even generate talking head video testimonials in an instant to go with a fake but auth looking gwebsite
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Let me guess, crypto was involved
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#17> malicious actors are exploiting its popularity by distributing a range of malware disguised as AI solutions’ installers and tools.
This sounds like the ordinary problem of ordinary malware in programs downloaded and installed off the Internet.
"AI malware is here" makes me think malware in the behavior of the "AI", or malware developed by AI.
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#18Sadly it is almost inevitable we'll have another Bredolab-size botnet (30 mln computers, 1% of all) by cybercriminals but this time it'll be an AI botnet. As soon as AI components will be useful, they'll be in botnets. And with such a size, you have more compute than OpenAI and can train a frontier misaligned model or modify an open source one: The solution is to not just have 10% of compute in clouds like we have no…
>And with such a size, you have more compute than OpenAI and can train a frontier misaligned model or modify an open source one That doesn't seem like a reasonable conclusion based on Open AI and leading lab expenditures. They need training data too, would one group actually be able to amass all of this? If you hijack 30 million random computers that's not as nearly as useful as 300K B200 GPUS for model training. Am…
It's a lot, but you're right that the more realistic scenario is just running an existing open source model - sadly those are trivial to misalign
So we better have SOTA clouds: people don't update computers for months and as Bredolab shows - their GPUs are up for grabs
Ideally and int. org. will do it but they are slow and countries don't cooperate enough, so a startup is more realistic
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Its just bonzi buddy and browser toolbars once again it seems.
Malware is just a niche of adware anyways, all the ads are mostly vectors for malware to get into your computer. Use adblcok, Use firefox, be free
I suspect the advertising space would be very different if they were strongly liable for scams/viruses being distributed through their networks.
But somehow everything these days "needs" to be monopoly-scale which means moderation/vetting must fall by the wayside.
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#20I think what worries me is that AI allows the fraud barrier to entry to be lowered - malware is malware but ai built website with a landing page looks like some startup - now with veo3 you can even generate talking head video testimonials in an instant to go with a fake but auth looking gwebsite
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Link?