ChatGPT o3 found a Linux Kernel vulnerability. "The future" has an 8% success rate, and a 28% chance of false positives. (sean.heelan.io)

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This blog post has been reported on and distorted by a lot of tech news sites using it to wax delusional about AI's future role in vulnerability detection.

But they all gloss over the critical bit: in fairly ideal circumstances where the AI was being directed to the vuln, it had only an 8% success rate, and a whopping 28% false positive rate!

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

As the other comments have pointed out, an automated search for this category of bugs (done without LLMs) would do the same job much faster, with much less computational resources, without any bullshit or hallucinations in the way. The LLM isn't actually a value add compared to existing tools.

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