• NoLemurs@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    “The outputs of this opt-in vulnerability scanner will be fully model-generated, without human review or triage,” Anthropic explained. “This will enable faster and more frequent scanning, but means that it is possible reports will be incorrect or invalid.”

    When I saw the headline, I was wondering about this specifically. This may make this service not super useful.

    My experience with AI security reviews is that they’re fantastic at finding faults, but they always find a list of things to complain about. If there are no real/serious faults they’ll start finding things that kind of have the same shape as a security issue, but really aren’t if you dig into them. I’ve regularly had an LLM generate a list of 10-15 issues ranging in severity from “nits” to “critical” where none of them were actual issues.

    Periodic reviews seem like they could get annoying really quickly, becoming more of a maintenance burden than a help.