points by thaumaturgy 3 days ago | 0 comments
Yeah. I'm choosing to believe that those people just over-weighted some previous info and are under-weighting the latest, but I dunno.
There's not a chance in hell that even half of the world's PHP has been updated, so I would expect that if we start seeing large-scale exploitation, those people will change their opinion pretty fast.
Being totally burned out on AI hype myself, I'm somewhat sympathetic towards the folks that are still thinking of this as just another example of that.
I mean, it was also that it was marketed in the media as a security apocalypse and unpatched servers would be falling within 15 minutes after the patch got released. This didn't happen. And that definitely warranted skepticism. There's been MUCH more severe vulnerabilities in the past that just went by without OpenAI's marketing making everyone go crazy about it.
Also, almost all information about it was dressed up in slop. Because OpenAI didn't want us to forget that AI was involved, somehow.