https://lemmy.world/post/49736885
If you follow AI news at all as part of your self-hosting interests, you may have become aware recently that open AI (the frontier lab between behind chat GPT) has admitted (loosely) culpability in an cyber attack against HuggingFace (the major repository of open-weight models.)
The details that present are somewhat sketchy, but the gist of it is that open AI seems to have given unrestricted access to a AI agent, which then attacked hugging face, who in a twist of deliciousness, used an open source agent to defend themselves.
I’d joke and tell you to make sure that you haven’t left any open ports on your router, but if you’re here reading this I think probably you know better than that.
Less comically, there’s a weird intersection here between self-hosting, sovereignty and encroachment by big tech that is worth pay attention to.
It should certainly spur people on to seriously consider self-hosting as much of their infrastructure as they can (and securing it) if this is the preview of things to come.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
I just wish I’d bought more SSDs.
In the AI evolution we find ourselves in, I have long looked at the very real possibilities of AI being used in a cyber attack. It’s is an obvious tool to me to use in such attacks. I am quite certain governments are experimenting with such capabilities. Where we used to use the old wardialing and sophisticated bots to jam communications when engaged in conflict, we would replace that with AI. I think that would be a natural progression of technology. For one, AI is relentless. It can find even the most minor soft spot in the ‘armor’ as it were, when programmed to do so.
We now use AI to find vulnerabilities in software like Linux which basically underpins the entire global internet infrastructure. It would only be obvious that nefarious actors, governmental or otherwise, would also use AI. It does present a lot of issues, but I honestly do not view this as alarming in as much as I see it as a natural technological progression. All technology since the dawn of time wields a double edged sword and that is inescapable.
I’ve long said AI desperately needs governmental regulation as much as I chafe against regulation which, in the hands of government, usually devolves into over regulation. Right now, it’s a wild wild west from AI rice cookers, to cyber attacks. Some look forward to the AI bubble bursting with glee. However, all that means to me is that the pieces left will be retooled into something else as history has revealed time and time again. I don’t think it’s a fad. I don’t think it’s going away. It may evolve into something else, but at it’s basis, I think AI is here to stay regardless of grassroots opposition.