points by anonymous908213 2 days ago | 0 comments
No, but they were part of the PR blitz. The lack of real-world exploitation + Calif commissioning a fucking webcomic made me skeptical. That's not fucking normal. Given what a huge marketing stunt it turned into, and 1000 vibe coded PoCs that aren't PoCs, it was at least in the realm of possibility that Calif huffed their own vibes too hard. If you want people to take security risks seriously, making them into a media spectacle promoting OpenAI is not the way to do it.
[–] tptacek 2 days ago
[–] anonymous908213 2 days ago
AI company tells you their AI was used to find the biggest vulnerability EVER, with much fanfare. Zero cases of exploitation in the wild. Zero publicly demonstrated PoCs. It would almost be weirder to not be skeptical at that point unless you for some reason trusted everything a marketing department says implicitly.
> These findings rank among the most severe vulnerabilities discovered in PHP, and arguably in software history.
See also the parable "Boy Who Cried Wolf" for more insight into the human condition.