Security"AI opened Pandora's box": YTN video passes 310,000 views; top comment: "An AI anchor is telling us this"
A YTN video on the flood of software flaws found by AI, posted Oct. 29, passed 310,000 views in under a day. It relayed a New York Times report of Oct. 28 that Silicon Valley security engineers are scrambling to fix AI-found flaws before hackers use them.
Per the description, OpenAI has found more than 1,300 flaws in open-source software since May. Google found and fixed 1,072 bugs in Chrome in June, more than in the previous two years. Microsoft shipped 1,461 fixes in October alone, above the 1,247 for all of last year.
OpenAI's head of cybersecurity Fouad Matin said "AI has opened a Pandora's box" in software vulnerabilities. Platformatic CTO Matteo Collina predicted "it will get 10 times worse."
Top comments reacted to the delivery: "An AI caster told us this" (223 likes), "AI finds it, AI fixes it, AI reports it" (218) and "even the YTN announcer is AI" (174). These are commenters' claims.
