alt Hacker NewsI’m not familiar with this specific effort but it seems like the companies digging around for the bugs should also offer similar access to their products that discovered the vulnerabilities to the vendors or OSS projects to patch them. Otherwise vendors might use this as a leveraged approach to get people to adopt LLMs, specifically theirs, so their products remain reasonably attractive. Google, OpenAI, Anthropic etc could just turn on existing software as a strategy to get more adoption of their tools.
“Don’t like our constant stream of patches? For $10k/mo + tokens you can get access to the model to patch the vulnerabilities we disclose!”
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The "product" that finds Project Zero bugs is the people who work for Project Zero.
Usually you can’t find the kind of bugs P0 finds by just throwing AI at it. You need highly skilled people driving/guiding it. Highly skilled people are the bottleneck.
In any case it’d be sensible to make yourself familiar with the “specific effort” before you make up your opinion on it.
You say that like it's a bad thing...
I mean, sure, the cited $10k / mo is exploitative for small open-source projects but... in general, why wouldn't we want there to be pressure on companies and projects to use high-quality LLM-based checks if they want to see wide adoption?
Project Zero has been around far longer than GenAI or LLMs, so your point is not really relevant here.