BlueMonday1984

Ran across a viral post on Bluesky:

Unsurprisingly, the replies and quotes are universally outraged at the news.

It feels like the rise of LLMs has set back cybersecurity by a good decade or so, and by my guess it probably has.

Agents are throwing away decades of hard-learned lessons in input sanitization (providing cybercriminals a Greatest Hits compilation of vulnerabilities), "vibe coding" is introducing vulnerabilities aplenty to codebases and hiding them under mountains of technical debt/unmaintainable code, LLM usage is damaging coding ability in coders both junior and senior, the entire tech field is haemorrhaging talent from burnout and layoffs, and that's just the things that are immediately coming to mind.

As I see it, cybersec may find itself practically back to square one once the dust settles.

New article on AI scraping just hit The Register, with some choice quotes from Anubis dev Xe Iaso. Xe herself has given some additional thoughts.

On the one hand, I can see your point - such advertisements could provide the hucksters some positive spin to assist their bubble with.

On the other hand, Silicon Valley's still got the heavy stench of Eau de Asshole off the AI bubble, with some Eau de Fash off of the Trump administration. If a new tech can be used for evil shit, the public's gonna (rightfully) assume it will be used for evil shit - and I doubt the hucksters can convince the public to think otherwise.

(also ew, mobile Wikipedia)

he has the superpower of making people sympathize with a cop

He's second only to the average sovereign citizen in that field.

Ultra-rare NIMBY W

LLMs are designed to make plausible-looking text, so whatever bullshit statistics they extrude will be more convincing to the untrained eye.

New edition of AI Killed My Job, focusing on how translators got fucked over by the AI bubble.

I looked through the quotes, and found someone openly hoping human-made work will be more highly valued in the bubble's wake:

You want my suspicion, I suspect she's gonna get her wish - with the slop-nami flooding the Internet, human-made work in general is gonna be valued all the more.

A story in two Skeets - one from a TV writer, one from a software dev:

On a personal sidenote, part of me suspects the AI bubble is gonna turn tech as a whole into a pop-culture punchline - the bubble's all-consuming nature and wide-ranging harms, plus the industry's relentless hype campaign, have already built a heavy amount of resentment against the industry, and the general public is gonna experience a colossal amount of schadenfreude once it bursts,

Hucksters can and will reinvent themselves as quantum-computing consultants on LinkedIn, but is the raw material for the grift really there? I’m doubtful.

By my guess, no. AI earned its investor/VC dollars by providing bosses and CEOs alike a cudgel to use against labour, either by deskilling workers, degrading their work conditions, or killing their jobs outright.

Quantum doesn't really have that - the only Big Claim™ I know it has going for it is its supposed ability to break pre-existing encryption clean in half, but that's near-certainly gonna be useless for hypebuilding.

On top of that, there's clear signs that we've grown quite an audience from dunking on AI. Ed Zitron reached 70k subscribers just a couple weeks ago, and Pivot to AI is at nearly 9k on YouTube.

If and when the next Big Dumb Thing comes along, chances are we're gonna have a headstart against the hucksters.