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Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE - allows any unprivileged local user to gain root access on a vulnerable Linux system - no patch available (github.com)

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[–] potustheplant@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Except that it is? There's nothing particularly special about mythos and it's not "too dangerous" to release. LLMs make it easier for people to find potential vulnerabilities, true. But they cannot actually confirm that they're real wothout an actual person verifying it. Lots of reports are bogus.

Do I hate AI? Of course I do. It literally has nothing positive unless you're an ai company's ceo. It's being sold at a heavily subsidized price that is literally unmaintainable. All models will have to use token based pricing and that's wgen you'll see what it actually costs (spoiler alert, it's a fuckton of money). This awfyl technology is also why a lot of tech is getting increasingly expensive.

Not to mention that for these models to exist, all of these companies stole unfathomable amounts of data and caused chaos in the job market. Aaron Swartz's life was turned into hell for much less.

You're literally defending a product that's enshitifying your life. It's absolutely moronic.

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[–] potustheplant@feddit.nl 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It can't replace people. There are numerous examples where that has been attempted and it worked horribly. There are also plenty of reports confirming that it has not improved productivity much (if at all). However, you do understand how AI works, right? Not only is it incredibly inefficient, it also requires input data to generate that output you like so much. If it does replace an entire profession, then that would mean that everything regarding that profession stagnates. AI, by definition, cannot create anything that's actually new. For example, if I were to release an entirely new programming language, it would have absolutely no idea how to use it.

Have you personally used Mythos?

My man, how many new models have claimed to be groundbreaking and etc, only to then prove to be marginally better?

If not, I’m not confident in your assessment, especially given your self-admitted bias in this area.

Ok then, be confident by actually reading studies about AI performance and its real impact in a work environment.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

I understand it very well. And, being a programmer and an electronics engineer, I do not fear at all for my salary. As I've already said, even if the mythical perfect model is released at some point, the technology itself is not economically viable. There are also numerous reports about how unsustainable the current business model is and how wildly expensive it would be if you actually had to pay for the computing cost. There's a reason why the whole circular funding scheme exists too. This is a giant bubble that's going to either pop or slowly deflate but it will not survive.

I'm getting "pissy" about ignorant, uninformed laymen repeating false headlines and promoting a technology that is actively killing the planet, worsening the lives of everyone (even more if you're near a datacenter) and preparing to cause unprecedented harm to the global economy. Again, you're promoting something built to enshitify your life. It's incredibly dumb.