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by jsheard 620 days ago
It's all good, as long as you're not in that recent AI Girlfriend breach which exposed a ton of users who were trying to coax it into generating CSAM images.

https://x.com/troyhunt/status/1843788319785939422

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“I went to the site to jerk off (to an adult scenario, to be clear) and noticed that it looked like it [the Muah.ai website] was put together pretty poorly,” the hacker told 404 Media. “It's basically a handful of open-source projects duct-taped together. I started poking around and found some vulnerabilities relatively quickly. At the start it was mostly just curiosity but I decided to contact you once I saw what was in the database.”

What a nice guy.

True penetration testing.
Well, only success with one kind.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but pentesting is not a particularly evil activity — and you often have to look at data to see if you actually found something.

What is evil is the way that he's ensured that the predators in the dataset will never face any consequences by making the data available to HaveIBeenPwned, making it trivial for predators to protect themselves (the method through which this is possible intentionally left as an exercise for the reader), and making the data available to a news website for...some reason, but it's bound to ensure that the vulnerability will be patched out quickly and no one else will be able to access the data.

I find it much more likely that this hacker who sought out a website for uncensored AI erotica isn't actually a good guy, and might even have something to hide within the dataset. Hopefully, I'm wrong and we'll see more of this.

How would that protect predators?
Did you miss the joke? Parent poster means penetration as in penetrative sex