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Is the Hugging Face incident from July really a problem? Or Australian healthcare portal breach? Who let their guard down unable to detect or roll back the change for days on end?

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As I said at the end of my comment, unless you're an AI researcher pushing the bound of what LLMs can do. I don't think most of us are running ten million dollar AI swarms with unreleased models that are escaping their sandboxes. That's research, not software engineering, and this discussion is about whether or not software engineers can reasonably expect to understand their LLM generated code.

Also, for what it's worth, LLM research is hardly the first scientific research to have accidents with negative external consequences.

Frontier labs are not the first to socialize externalities and privatize the gains. Not even the first to shift the responsibility on to some non-entity (agents, corporations). I think you have a very reductionist view of software. Software is used to design the buildings you inhabit, bridges you cross, vehicles you drive, medical devices you wear...

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