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I’m struggling grasping your logic. I am very far from being an AI fanboy but I’m also not a luddite.
So we have tools now that can pretty much autonomously scan through any accessible codebase and find new vulnerabilities that were not found before. And you say that’s not a big deal because anyone could have found those vulnerabilities if they looked?
Of course, that’s the whole point, nobody was able to attack at that scale before, and now many actors are. Your argument reminds me of what was common to hear 15 years ago when nobody secured anything: “why would I complicate my life with security, nobody wants to hack me! and if one day the CIA decides to come after me, they can get through security anyways!” True, until you have botnets scanning every ip…
The problem is that not "many actors" are able to attack at this scale, because running a scan at this scale is extremely expensive. If I were to run a thousand fuzzers on a piece of code I will almost certainly find a vulnerability, but I can't do that because of the prohibitive cost. Anthropic is essentially buying marketing by doing this to make their product seem more useful than it is.
The problem isn't that it's finding stuff. It's that it's also finding a ton of useless crap that a human has to sort through because the machines aren't reliable. If you get blasted with 100 new lengthy and overly detailed bug reports vomited up by a text generator and you have to triage them all to figure out if there even is a needle in that haystack, the added benefit is practically nullified by the overhead of actually utilising it.
Oh I know the response to this: you have to set up an agent team to triage the reports!
I understand why a team wouldn’t want to have anything to do with AI. I don’t understand why a user thinks software is compromised if they accept AI generated bug reports.
For some, it may be a matter of trust: If I don't trust AI code, but you do, I don't trust you either.
For others, it will be a matter of hardline principles: If I don't want AI to get any foothold whatsoever, but you accept it in some form, you join the trend I oppose and I don't want to associate with you or contribute to the popularity metrics of your product (such as unique downloads).
I don't feel like discussing the merits of either stance, but I hope this helps you understand the premises leading to that conclusion at least.