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by bawolff 980 days ago
I'm not sure why this is interesting. AI was asked to make a fake vulnerability and it did. That's the sort of thing these AIs are good at, not exactly new at this point.
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You're leaving out the "...and then they reported it to the project" part, which meant that the project maintainers had to put in time and effort responding to a reported vulnerability.
As someone who has been on the maintainer side of a bug bounty program - they are a mountain of BS with 1% being diamonds. This report probably didn't make much of a difference.
For one thing for the last week I've seen several articles about "curl is vulnerable and will be exposed soon!!". For it to turn out this way is certainly a plot twist.
This is not the way that turned it out. The curl vuln everyone was fretting about was https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2023-38545.html still very much a serious and real vulnerability.