Weaponizing generative AI | InfoWorld [Video]

The security of genAI models is iffy and takes a back seat to other issues, but with developers increasingly using genAI for code, it needs to become a priority.

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Well, that didn’t last long. Generative AI has existed just a few short years, but already we seem to be alternating between bouts of disillusionment and euphoria. More worrying, however, is not where we are on Gartner’s Hype Cycle, but how genAI has already been weaponized, sometimes by accident and sometimes quite intentionally. It’s normal for new technologies to overlook security as they rise to prominence, but for genAI, security shortcomings may erode the trust the technology needs for widespread production use.

Security through obscurity

Early in a technology’s existence, other concerns like performance or convenience may trump security. For years we in the open sourceworld were far too cavalier toward security, trusting in smart-sounding phrases such as “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow” when, …