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> I do know that LLMs have been discovering a lot of legit CVEs,

And that's great! Now the human in the loop can verify the accuracy of each finding and take responsibility for moving it forward.

> and I will lay odds that the blackhats are leveraging them to the max.

We just need more humans in the loop to do that more quickly, each putting their own reputation on the line with each CVE they determine to be legit.

AI doesn't stand for "accountability irrelevant", even though most people act like it does.

We can shoot for 100% accountability by demanding 100% accuracy.

Of course what will really happen is anyone looking for problems will stop going to the source for fixes and will start gaining cred in the dark markets of exploits and problems, which is better for everyone, right?

Just because someone is using AI doesn't mean they didn't find a bug, it's more likely they just have no means of determining if it's a real bug or not, so to the maintainers tickets seem random. The problem comes in when clever attackers can take these untrustworthy tickets and run them through another LLM that determines if an exploit is possible and then uses the attacks it finds before anyone has a chance to patch.