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There's a security bug in Openssh. I don't know what it is, but I can tell you with statistical certainty that it exists.
Go on and do with this information whatever you want.
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lxgr • today at 10:19 AM
If you're a random person on the Internet, I can indeed not do much with that information.
But if you're a security research lab that a competing lab can ballpark the funding of and the amount of projects they're working on (based on industry comparisons, past publications etc.), I think that can be a signal.
I think in the context of these it’s more of “we’ve discovered a bug” which gives you more information than “there is a bug”. The main difference in information being that the former implies not only there is a bug but that LLMs can find it.