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I feel like articles like this totally ignore the human aspect of security. Why do people actually hack? Incentives. Money, power, influence. Where is the ince
by w_for_wumbo 3y ago
I feel like articles like this totally ignore the human aspect of security.
Why do people actually hack? Incentives. Money, power, influence.
Where is the incentive to perform this? Which is essentially shitting in the collective pool of knowledge.
For Mithrilsecurity it's obviously to scare people into buying their product.
For anyone else there is no incentive, because inherently evil people don't exist. It's either misaligned incentives or curiosity.
- 8organicbits 3y agoI can think of several, doesn't take much imagination: Make a LLM that recommends a specific stock or cryptocurrency any time people ask about personal finance as a pump-and-dump scheme (financial motivation). Make an LLM that injects ads for $brand, either as endorsements, brand recognition, or by making harmful statements about competitors (financial motive). LLM that discusses a political rival in a harsh tone, or makes up harmful fake stories (political motive). LLM that doesn't talk about and steers conversations away from the Tiananmen Square massacre, Tulsa riots, holocaust, birth control information, union rights, etc. (censorship). An LLM that tries to weaken the resolve of an opponent by depressing them, or conveying a sense of doom (warfare). An LLM that always replaces the word cloud with butt (for the lulz).