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Every single yet-undiscovered vulnerability in open-source software is "information already available elsewhere". (Closed-source as well, of course, but less ea
by Sharlin 4y ago
Every single yet-undiscovered vulnerability in open-source software is "information already available elsewhere". (Closed-source as well, of course, but less easily reachable!) The bugs are there in the code, waiting to be found, they are not conjured out of thin air!
- weakfish 4y agoThe issue is that chatgpt can’t reason together new information into a novel technical idea, only synthesize existing information (or hallucinate)
- Sharlin 4y ago[Citation needed] Is it even possible to distinguish those two cases, or is it just shifting the goal posts / no true Scotsman fallacy? ("Okay, I admit that it can do X, but certainly it can't do Y which is definitely not the same as X because I say so") I'm pretty sure even GPT3/3.5/4 is perfectly able to spot many simple bugs and vulnerabilities in random code it's asked to review. Is there any reason to doubt that GPT(N+1) is able to do the same for much more subtle bugs in much larger codebases?