[integralid]

>there's a bug in widely used tool x"

There's a security bug in Openssh. I don't know what it is, but I can tell you with statistical certainty that it exists.

Go on and do with this information whatever you want.

[mmilunic]

I think in the context of these it’s more of “we’ve discovered a bug” which gives you more information than “there is a bug”. The main difference in information being that the former implies not only there is a bug but that LLMs can find it.

[lxgr]

If you're a random person on the Internet, I can indeed not do much with that information.

But if you're a security research lab that a competing lab can ballpark the funding of and the amount of projects they're working on (based on industry comparisons, past publications etc.), I think that can be a signal.