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Amazon's AI Coding Revealed a Dirty Little Secret (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] BigBrownBeaver@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

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A hacker was recently able to infiltrate an AI-powered plugin for Amazon’s coding tool,1 secretly instructing it to delete files from the computers it was used on. The incident points to a gaping security hole in generative AI that has gone largely unnoticed in the race to capitalize on the technology.