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Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You

From	Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You
Date	2026-04-26 09:45 -0400
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References	(2 earlier) <20260414145204.00002165@gmail.com> <10rplsd$1cumn$1@paganini.bofh.team> <slrn10uounn.1lou.anthk@openbsd.home> <87ldeazyj0.fsf@posteo.de> <MPG.4456d2f08c5b8b6a989d48@news.eternal-september.org>

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The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> writes:

> Verily, in article <87ldeazyj0.fsf@posteo.de>, did jonathan@jlamothe.net 
> deliver unto us this message:
>> Anthk <anthk@disroot.org> writes:
>> 
>> > [quoted text muted]
>> >
>> > Even the worst compiler/interpreter from https://t3x.org
>> > it's far more useful than any LLM *over time* because
>> > you can be sure the output will be 100% the same no
>> > matter what you are trying to implement.
>> 
>> Also, compilers don't "hallucinate".  This is not a property of LLMs
>> that anyone has any idea how to correct.
>> 
>
> The problem is that it's always "hallucinating." It has no idea what 
> it's actually saying, at least at this point. It's a tribute to math and 
> ingenuity that the result usually makes sense and is often even 
> accurate. 

Yeah, that's why I wrote "hallucinate" in quotes.  LLMs are nothing more
than a massive pile of linear algebra tuned to approximate something
statistically resembling a plausible response to annarbitrary input.
It's an impressive parlour trick, but a trick none the less.

-- 
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Jonathan Lamothe
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Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You Anonymous User <noreply@dirge.harmsk.com> - 2026-04-14 16:52 -0400
  Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> - 2026-04-14 17:31 -0400
    Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You Bill Findlay <findlaybill@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2026-04-15 23:33 +0100
      Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-15 22:57 +0000
        Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed   Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You Bill Findlay <findlaybill@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2026-04-16 00:15 +0100
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          Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> - 2026-04-16 11:34 -0400
            Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2026-04-16 20:50 +0000
          Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-16 23:14 +0000
            Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> - 2026-04-16 21:23 -0400
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      Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You Anthk <anthk@disroot.org> - 2026-04-25 13:14 +0000
        Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> - 2026-04-25 14:26 -0400
          Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> - 2026-04-25 14:33 -0400
            Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> - 2026-04-26 09:45 -0400
              Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> - 2026-04-26 10:10 -0400
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                Re: BRAXMAN: The Skynet Moment: How Mythos AI Just Changed Cybersecurity Forever - And Why It Should Scare You Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> - 2026-04-26 22:51 -0400
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