I'm not saying AI was the culprit, but... (lemmy.world)

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[-] neatchee@lemmy.world 50 points 5 months ago

I've seen a lot of stupid comments about this outage but this by far the dumbest.

Software development is not a zero-sum game. The people who work on building detection logic aren't the same people who build the release management cycle or test deployments.

There is a lot to shit on CrowdStrike for in this debacle. "If they hadn't been working on AI they could have avoided this" isn't part of it.

Source: Am infosec. Company uses CrowdStrike. Was impacted today. Follow this stuff very closely.

[-] HATEFISH@midwest.social 23 points 5 months ago

Are you under the impression ai generated or pushed the update?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

No, I’m under the impression that they’re focusing on AI instead of what they should be focusing on.

[-] reflectedodds@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago

They would have been focusing on "AI" since before chatgpt/genAI.

This is a place where you actually do want machine learning to categorize threats. This is a different ai than chatgpt ai. We just call everything AI now cus why not.

But yea, they fucked up.

[-] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

Top spot for " Boomer who doesn't know tech" goes to this guy.

[-] R00bot 16 points 5 months ago

Cyber security software has been using AI (aka ML) for years. Blaming AI for this outage is stupid.

[-] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 1 points 5 months ago

I think the point (maybe I'm reading what I want) but it's the substitution of human supervision for ML based decision-making and over-relying in ambiguous automation that are barely understood because most of them are black boxes to customers.

Or I don't know, AI bad I guess ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

[-] R00bot 7 points 5 months ago

Nah the ML is generally just looking at trends in traffic on a network, and blocking traffic if it doesn't fit the trends. It's essential to use ML over humans for this because of the volume of traffic and the response speeds needed for cyber attacks. It's simply not possible for a human to vet all that traffic fast enough.

[-] leadore@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

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