GitHub Copilot, Amazon Code Whisperer sometimes emit other people's API keys

GitHub Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisper can be coaxed to emit hardcoded credentials that these AI models captured during training, though not all that often. A group of researchers at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Sun Yat-sen University in China decided to look into whether AI "Neural Code Completion Tools," used to …

[b0llchit]

We're too smart for the (ML/AI) internet

• 1) Be stupid
• 2) Expose your inner secrets on the internet
• 3) Be ignorant
• 4) Surprise, you're on candid camera
• 5) Now you're a member of the ID10T group

We don't really need AI/ML to tell us about our collective stupidity. Just take a look on the internet and it should be obvious.

[Kevin McMurtrie]

Re: We're too smart for the (ML/AI) internet

6) Demand that everybody redact the private key you accidentally exposed because your architecture doesn't support changing keys. I mean, who does that?

[Brewster's Angle Grinder]

When you want the things to give you links; they hallucinate.

When you want the things to hallucinate passwords, they give you real ones.

[Doctor Syntax]

It's just pure chance. Nothing at all to be worried about.

[Lee D]

This stuff is really the dumbest use of machines that I can imagine.

"Please give me a bad answer unreliably, trained on data that you really shouldn't have ever had access to."

[Anonymous Coward]

Github, Amazon......and then there's others too.....

Link: https://www.zdnet.com/article/zoom-is-entangled-in-an-ai-privacy-mess/

Zoom walked back this TOC mess (see above).....but the Zoom genie is out of the bottle too.

How about deep fake videos of Zoom participants?....or Zoom grabbing and using screen shares?

Be afraid.......

[Missing Semicolon]

"public"?

I thought these LLMs were being trained on non-public repos?

[Ken Hagan]

Re: "public"?

Don't confuse "public" with "public domain".

[Claptrap314]

Raise you hand...

if you were surprised by this at all.

Beuller? Beuller?