People still use programming books, they just don't purchase new retail books as often. Books have become magnitudes cheaper for publishers to produce but the books didn't get cheaper for consumers. I went to O'Reilly's site, clicked on the first book that popped up and it costs $67.99 for a digitally printed paperback book:
Take a guess why so many younger devs will opt to pirate a PDF rather than purchase retail programming books. Publishers are pricing themselves out of the market.
The publishers argued that, in addition to sharing pirated books with the public, the shadow library is serving as a primary training data hub for AI companies like Meta and NVIDIA.
The fact the bug bounty program is private and requires you to apply and be accepted first is also sus especially when the scope is the desktop app anyone can download.
The author of this article is an AI industry promoter and lobbyist. Just read through his substack which was the first red flag. He's on Substack. The author has a history of making misleading claims about the environmental safety and efficacy of AI. This guy is going to need some pom-poms to cheer any harder for the AI industry.
Would you care to explain in what way his claims have been misleading? Because I have read all of his articles and attacked his math and his sources, and so on, and I haven't found them misleading at all. The biggest way I've seen him accuse of being misleading makes the exact mistake he responds to from Joshi in [this piece](https://blog.andymasley.com/p/replies-to-criticisms-of-my-ch...).
We don't need to take sides though. It's fairly easy to find some of the papers and whether they were referenced in the Benn Jordan video or not, and whether they say what he says or the article author says.
I have generally enjoyed Benn Jordan's videos, but I have also been skeptical about the infrasound / hum stuff. It seemed like amplifying a fringe pseudoscience, much like the wireless and 5g stuff. So not that surprised to see a debunking article.
Last month I wrote a dynamic malware analysis tool in Rust. About 20,000 lines of it. Process management, threading, memory management, the whole stack. I don’t know Rust
They're not and they won't. I'm from genx and have a background in infosec. I don't agree that AI is the cause of this sudden surge in activity or if this is even a sudden surge. This stuff was always occurring if you were paying attention. It just making the mainstream news now.
Geopolitics is the cause of the recent uptick in activity. Many of these groups are state sponsored or just fronts for nation-states themselves. genAI just makes it easier for people further down the chain to go after low hanging fruit.
The most significant impact genAI is having on infosec is creating work for those people in infosec through vibe coding and turning untested AI systems loose on internal networks. genAI just lets developers and admins shoot themselves in the foot faster. genAI is an artificial intern.
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