alt Hacker NewsThe even more scary thought is if the part owning the ai, that everyone uses, is controlled by someone with different agenda. Say a state actor.
What an easy way for that actor to introduce backdoors all over the place or to take over any developers laptop that it want to target.
How can anyone trust these tools and how can anyone not use them since they give so much value.
I've been programming my whole life and been a professional developer the last 30 years and I like think I'm good at it.
Tools like Claude is a multiplier that make it possible for me to solve a lot more problems each day, so just saying no it's not a viable option.
Exciting times ahead!
Yeah, I am quite surprised this is not discussed more often - for remote cloud based AI not only does the provider see everything you provide to the tool/agent, there is no guarantee they can't manipulate the output at any time for a direct attack or more malicious purpose (fetch keys/secrets, put malware in place).
Even with locally running models this can't be singled out given how blackbox models generated by others are. You would have to generate the model yourself from clean data to be reasonably safe.