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These AI reports are just an acceleration of the slop created by similar human “researchers”. The real root cause of this is that most security “professionals”
by placardloop 1y ago
These AI reports are just an acceleration of the slop created by similar human “researchers”. The real root cause of this is that most security “professionals” have been trained to do the bare minimum of work and expect a payday from it.
There’s an entire industry of “penetration testers” that do nothing more than run Fortify against your code base and then expect you to pay them $100k for handing over the findings report. And now AI makes it even easier to do that faster.
We have an industry that pats security engineers on the back for discovering the “coolest” security issue - and nothing that incentivizes them to make sure that it actually is a useful finding, or more importantly, actually helping to fix it. Even at my big tech company, where I truly think some of the smartest security people work, they all have this attitude that their job is just to uncover an issue, drop it in someone else’s lap, and then expect a gold star and a payout, never mind the fact that their finding made no sense and was just a waste of time for the developer team. There is an attitude that security people don’t have any responsibility for making things better - only for pointing out the bad things. And that attitude is carrying over into this AI slop.
There’s no incentive for security people to not just “spray and pray” security issues at you. We need to stop paying out but bounties for discovering things, and instead better incentivize fixing them - in the process weeding out reports that don’t actually lead to a fix.
- conartist6 1y agoOh yes. AI has nothing to do with it! It is Totally Outrageous and Unexpected that AI would be abused to spew a lot of low value crap. Haha, I kid. Make no mistake, this is the AI sales pitch. A *weapon* to use on your opposition. If the hackers were trying to win by using it to wear down the defenders it could not possibly be working better.
- conartist6 1y agoIt is at the same time being used to tear down faith in democracy, all open content in the Internet, workers' autonomy, and generally serving to attempt to make all thought derivative while minimizing incentives to create anything new that isn't an AI
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- jdefr89 1y agoProfessional Vulnerability Researcher here... You are correct. Over the years this industry has seen an influx of script kiddies who do nothing but run tools. It's sad but I really think this field needs more gate keeping...