Will opensource software be less safe due to AI? (aussie.zone)

submitted 6 days ago by sammy_gr@aussie.zone to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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The title is pretty self explanatory, but will opensource software become less and less safe compared to "big company software", as big companies gain access to more and more advanced AI to test for their vulnerabilities? Or even malicious actors gaining access to more advanced AI, able to break into opensource software made by a small team easier? Should a privacy oriented person then stay away from such software?

And, yes ... I'm tired of AI, AI, and more AI.

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[-] eremophila@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago

"big company", big media, and big government are likely to try to use that as a reason to try to control open source, or at least manipulate what people think of it.

"I made this" is a warning sign now

[-] Hackworth@piefed.ca 6 points 6 days ago

And those same big companies are letting AI agents into their own source. Hell, even before LLMs, it was an open secret that Microsoft had lost so much institutional knowledge that half of their own codebase was opaque to them.