Comment by tptacek

1 day ago

There is a 100% chance that people are using LLMs to find vulnerabilities and build exploits. If it was possible for something to be a 101% chance, that's what it would be.

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tom_  1 day ago

Apologies to all - I am British. The phrase "non-zero" does cover every case other than zero, but the intent is that it covers some cases more than others. What I'm trying to say is: yes. My intent was just to push back on this specific (and slightly bizarre to me) instance of kind-of-vagueposting, to my eyes written to imply that it might be some sort of unnoticed conspiracy, detectable only by the most enlightened of observers, attuned to the subtle signals that most people miss: that people are using LLMs to find security exploits.

  • alexfoo  14 hours ago

    Indeed. It's similar to a different sliding scale that I've noticed is much more common amongst Brits than it is by other nationalities (in my limited experience):

        Zero number of...
    Insignificant numbers of...
    Not-significant numbers of...
    Not-insignificant numbers of...
    Significant numbers of...
    Very significant numbers of...

    Along with the other similar scales (roughly in order):

        None of
    One or two of
    A couple of
    A few of
    Some of
    Many of
    Lots of
    Most of
    Almost all of
    All of

  • tptacek  1 day ago

    Right, no, what I'm snarkily saying is that basically everybody who has ever looked for a vulnerability before is now using LLMs to do it. It's a huge thing in exploit development right now.