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sscaryterry | on: GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities
Interesting... So Chinese models are not so bad?
zorked | parent | next
There's a chance that the real reason why they want to ban Chinese models is that they are so good at fixing bugs and preventing exploits that intelligence agencies have been using for espionage and surveillance for a long time.
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maipen | root | parent
Do you actually believe this?
VulgarExigency | root | parent | next
The CIA ran one of the world's largest cryptography companies, for DECADES[1]. Are you truly so naive that you believe intelligence agencies that have more to gain from stifling the discovery of vulnerabilities they know of and use wouldn't do so?

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-...

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meowface | root | parent
I believe it is unlikely. (Not because I do not believe NSA is hoarding 0-days, but for many other reasons.)

I'm curious: to any professional vulnerability researchers reading this, what do you think?

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orbital-decay | root | parent | next
Why would you even believe the opposite? US spooks have been amassing vulnerabilities and relying on them for decades, they literally pioneered it in the 90's if not earlier. Everyone does it now but the US is the biggest of them all. Surely this devalues a lot of what they did. Moreover, the way the US government handled new capabilities, and OpenAI's training policy (they are in bed with the government) just scream "we want to create weapons for cyber-offence and deny them to everyone else"

It might not be the reason, but of course it's a contributing factor.

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sscaryterry | root | parent
Critical thinking says this is not only possible but likely too.
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cromka | parent
Looks like they're going for good PR now, to avoid smearing by the "Western" models. Smart!
croon | root | parent
I'd love to live in a society where people and corporations do good things for PR.
blooalien | root | parent | next
> I'd love to live in a society where people and corporations do good things for PR.

Maybe so, but I'm not sure I'd like to live in China of all places. (Don't get me wrong. Lotta places I'd like to visit if I ever got the chance, and China's on that list, but to live there? I don't think so.) Maybe one of the Nordic countries?

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