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Microsoft confirms an AI worm is propagating through Copilot and other MS apps | CSO Online
www.csoonline.com/article/4203630/microsoft-confirms-an-ai-worm-is-propagating-through-copilot-and-other-ms-apps.html
CSO OnlineMicrosoft confirms an AI worm is propagating through Copilot and other MS appsAlthough there are a few ways to mitigate the risk, the only way to block it is to get AI to differentiate instructions from data, which is impossible today.Replying to @FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works
the only way to block it is to get AI to differentiate instructions from data, which is impossible today
Input sanitation, basically security 101. And it can’t currently do it…
Replying to @RamRabbit@lemmy.world
I just can’t anymore. Isn’t that like, the basic thing any program does? Who runs these companies?
Replying to @schmorpel@slrpnk.net
It is - and tons of bugs are just about fucking it up or just not doing it at all. Incomplete or faulty parsing and validation of untrusted input is absurdly common. It got better in the past decades, but most software developers write worse code than AI by now (not me though; obviously, I am still better than the best AI).