ekio The journalist didn’t understand the situation properly here. The reports are not false at all, AI finds real bug and vulnerabilities, but at a too fast pace for maintainers to keep up with tickets. Maintainers will drop some obsolete drivers with vulnerabilities found by AI because too much work, not enough users. Reply
coolitic ekio said: The journalist didn’t understand the situation properly here. The reports are not false at all, AI finds real bug and vulnerabilities, but at a too fast pace for maintainers to keep up with tickets. Maintainers will drop some obsolete drivers with vulnerabilities found by AI because too much work, not enough users. No, it's certainly both. And likely more hallucinations or very theoretical edge-cases than anything else. Reply
LabRat 891 So, what I'm getting out of this is: Don't bother switching to Linux, it's well on its way to being maintained like a MSFT product. "Too many bugs, too old of hardware, too hard. Unsupported!" Reply
Terry Lambert Just make the modules loadable, make them not loaded by default, and make them warn when they are loaded explicitly, and require acknowledgment of the warning to allow them to be loaded. “This driver has AI reported bugs which may compromise your security, or may just be the AI hallucinating again. “ If there’s an omnibus bug report that somebody wants to maintain that links to individual bugs on a driver by driver basis, which have been reported, so that they can take care of the bugs to get rid of the warning, and get rid of the forced acknowledgment of the warning, then they can go ahead and send patches. Otherwise, they can continue to use the driver, but it’s going to pester them every time they do so. Much better than simply dropping support for the driver. If the default policy is dropping support for the driver, then all I have to do is generate a bunch of fake AI bug reports anytime I want my competitors driver out of the Linux kernel, and somebody will obligingly pull the driver. If the new jerk response is pulling a driver anytime, there are too many bug reports, then it’s really easy to abuse that process, which makes the bug reporting process an tax surface on the Linux community at large. Reply
wakuwaku ekio said: The journalist didn’t understand the situation properly here. The reports are not false at all, AI finds real bug and vulnerabilities, but at a too fast pace for maintainers to keep up with tickets. Maintainers will drop some obsolete drivers with vulnerabilities found by AI because too much work, not enough users. Your word is no better than any Tom's writer. Zero Citations, Zero indication of reading sources and/or citations, just pure: "What I write must be right because I am always right!" Sure go ahead with your hallucinations. Reply
thesyndrome Terry Lambert said: Just make the modules loadable, make them not loaded by default, and make them warn when they are loaded explicitly, and require acknowledgment of the warning to allow them to be loaded. “This driver has AI reported bugs which may compromise your security, or may just be the AI hallucinating again. “ If there’s an omnibus bug report that somebody wants to maintain that links to individual bugs on a driver by driver basis, which have been reported, so that they can take care of the bugs to get rid of the warning, and get rid of the forced acknowledgment of the warning, then they can go ahead and send patches. Otherwise, they can continue to use the driver, but it’s going to pester them every time they do so. Much better than simply dropping support for the driver. If the default policy is dropping support for the driver, then all I have to do is generate a bunch of fake AI bug reports anytime I want my competitors driver out of the Linux kernel, and somebody will obligingly pull the driver. If the new jerk response is pulling a driver anytime, there are too many bug reports, then it’s really easy to abuse that process, which makes the bug reporting process an tax surface on the Linux community at large. Agreed, just include it as an option during install, or something tucked away that can be activated through the terminal after install (or both) and give explicit warnings about AI's flagging it's older systems as bugs if you choose to enable it Reply
ekio wakuwaku said: Your word is no better than any Tom's writer. Zero Citations, Zero indication of reading sources and/or citations, just pure: "What I write must be right because I am always right!" Sure go ahead with your hallucinations. What I can tell you, is that with AI improvements in the field of security, this situation will get much worse. New models will find hundred if not thousands of exploits and the result will be more abandoned obsolete drivers fullof holes and that’s where Linus Torvalds was a genius once again enabling Rust for the Linux kernel. Rust drivers are hundreds of times less exposed, making the AI security agent situation bareable in the future. Reply
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