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Why Powerful But Hard To Detect Backdoors Could Become A Routine Problem For Open Source Projects Because Of AI (www.techdirt.com)

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[–] Naich@lemmings.world 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Not just a problem for open source, surely? The answer is to use AI to scan contributions for suspicious patterns, no?

[–] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And then when those AI also have issues do we use the AI to check the AI for the AI?

[–] prex@aussie.zone 4 points 4 months ago

Its turtles all the way down.

[–] byzxor@beehaw.org 6 points 4 months ago

there's already a whole swathe of static analysis tools that are used for these purposes (e.g. Sonarqube, GH code scanning). of course their viability and costs affect who can and does utilise them. whether or not they utilise LLMs I do not know (but I'm guessing probably yes).