alt Hacker NewsJust go ask some actual kernel maintainers who are being spammed by frontier models daily.
> These are relatively simple statistics.
According to Greg KH 50% of the vulns are flat out wrong, or the patches don't fix the problem, or the scenario is impossible in the real world, or just isn't a security issue.
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spacebanana7 • today at 2:18 PM
To be fair that sounds like similar false positive rate to human bug reports, if not better. Although the agentic scale of these reports must consume huge amounts of time.
The kernel has also been removing a bunch of old unmaintained drivers due to these reports.
I have to wonder how many of these 1000 paths are simply dead drivers with security vulnerabilities [1]. Impossible to exploit because nobody uses it, but easy enough to juice up the numbers of "found" vulnerabilities.
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/1068928/