This is the story of how I found 10,000 repositories on GitHub that distribute Trojan malware. They are all from different contributors, have different names, and are not forks of other repositories. But they share a common pattern, which is what allowed me to write a script to find
  • Klear@piefed.worldEnglish
    151·
    4 days ago

    I discussed with an AI what else could be done about this, but it didn’t offer any useful advice.

    Could have skipped this part.

    • techt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      4 days ago

      I think it serves a purpose even without the following sentence which accentuates that purpose:

      I opened a thread on GitHub, and three people replied with the same AI slop that was of no use at all.

      • Klear@piefed.worldEnglish
        21·
        4 days ago

        IMO it weakens his next sentence. Idiots asking AI first and then posting that as an answer is a known (and completely separate) point, but he previously basically admits he’s well on his way to become of those idiots. At least he did understand that the AI told him utter bullshit.

        • orchid@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          I really like how you’re discussing whether it makes sense to insert certain sentences into the text) I get the impression that you’re suggesting I shouldn’t ask the AI any questions at all. Even if I’m just using it as a replacement for Google, I should stop doing that. Or am I mistaken, and did you mean something else? Or can I keep using AI, but not tell anyone about it?

          • cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            31·
            3 days ago

            AI is incredibly useful but also model dependent. I suspect the biggest AI haters online are either completely irrational and/or politically motivated to hate it because it might take jobs etc., or they have used free/cheap models that are in fact pretty terrible because they have fewer parameters.