No one's going to trust that shit, so they'll be in the same boat as Nvidia.
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I'm not saying you're wrong, but what trust do you need for rendering stuff? Invasive drivers?
Drivers are part of it.
There can also be built in back doors that can be leveraged to extract display information.
As it's a gpu I'd imagine a backdoor could also be used to covertly run a malicious llm, could be used to crack hashed encryption keys (not a huge risk tbh but possible) as well as allowing for the covert exfiltration of display information directly. As part of any display device is output, either hdmi or DisplayPort, backdoors could allow for the interception of en/decrypted display information. Over hdmi at least. I'm not sure if DisplayPort video signals are encrypted or not but I'd assume so.
That would be noticed like right away though?
Not saying they won't do it but I bet if it isn't some quite deep rarely used stuff in the drivers, security people will find out quickly?
Not necessarily and especially if it's at the hardware level.
If there's an exploit baked into the drivers then it's entirely possible it may not be noticed for some time - doubly so if it's closed source. But likely that it will be eventually.
Anything at the hardware/firmware level and it could take ages before anyone finds it, if they do at all.
Mining stuff draws power like mad, and needs to connect to a server somewhere, both are very easy to spot.
But everyone assumes they are special and some goverment is watching how they jack off.
I never mentioned but you're not wrong.
I really don't think mining would be something anyone should be concerned about.