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What do you think were the major challenges involved in creating Stuxnet and why do you think a GPT bot will make the next one significantly easier?

credit_guy 4y ago
ChatGPT is already able to write programs in various languages. I guess it was trained on open source programs like those in GitHub. Someone (let's say the NSA) can train it on a large database of viruses, warms, known exploits, etc, and ask it to come up with a new virus with some given parameters. The NSA is either doing that or not. Russia's hackers are either working on that or not. China's hackers may or may not be working on that. Ditto for Israels hackers. But the chance that absolutely none of them is working on that is infinitesimal. Which means that actually all of them are working on that. And some indie hackers too.
- soared 4y ago
  It’s pretty easy to come up with ideas for viruses. It’s the implementation that difficult. Chatgpt can’t write the code and walk out to the parking lot to plant a usb drive.
- titaniczero 4y ago
  I fail to see how ChatGPT would help here. It's only useful when you have some cognitive work that you want to automate so it saves you time and you can do it on a large scale, but I don't think writing massive amounts of viruses is the goal here. The objective is to code very specific and particular viruses or exploits for very specific targets. Also, writing code is only a small part of hacking, especially when it is against specific targets.
  - credit_guy 4y ago
    > I fail to see how ChatGPT would help here. Why? You think ChatGPT will always remain at its current capabilities? Really? Here's the thing: if you can do some activity from your keyboard, not far in the future some GPT bot will be able to do it better than you. Not only better than you, it will run circles around you.
pixl97 4y ago
By developers asking for code from gpt then gpt will examine all of the code samples sent to Iraian IPs for exploits and attack the bad code it wrote.

credit_guy 4y ago

ChatGPT is already able to write programs in various languages. I guess it was trained on open source programs like those in GitHub. Someone (let's say the NSA) can train it on a large database of viruses, warms, known exploits, etc, and ask it to come up with a new virus with some given parameters. The NSA is either doing that or not. Russia's hackers are either working on that or not. China's hackers may or may not be working on that. Ditto for Israels hackers. But the chance that absolutely none of them is working on that is infinitesimal. Which means that actually all of them are working on that. And some indie hackers too.

soared 4y ago
It’s pretty easy to come up with ideas for viruses. It’s the implementation that difficult. Chatgpt can’t write the code and walk out to the parking lot to plant a usb drive.
titaniczero 4y ago
I fail to see how ChatGPT would help here. It's only useful when you have some cognitive work that you want to automate so it saves you time and you can do it on a large scale, but I don't think writing massive amounts of viruses is the goal here. The objective is to code very specific and particular viruses or exploits for very specific targets. Also, writing code is only a small part of hacking, especially when it is against specific targets.
- credit_guy 4y ago
  > I fail to see how ChatGPT would help here. Why? You think ChatGPT will always remain at its current capabilities? Really? Here's the thing: if you can do some activity from your keyboard, not far in the future some GPT bot will be able to do it better than you. Not only better than you, it will run circles around you.

pixl97 4y ago

By developers asking for code from gpt then gpt will examine all of the code samples sent to Iraian IPs for exploits and attack the bad code it wrote.