I swear this isn't me being smug, but there's a reason I never participated in Stack Overflow, and it's this: a VC-funded for-profit company is always going to try to maximize the profit from the things its users do, no matter how much those users are doing it for a community or others.
It's important to consider #ThreatModels, which seems hard at first, but by asking yourself "how could they exploit this?" you can come up with a lot of justification for not participating.
I remember thinking how cool it was that Google was using all Android phones to measure traffic in order to accurately display it on Google Maps. Oh, sweet summer child. 🤦 #ThreatModels
Predictably, #microsoft started injecting ads into #openai#gpt4 powered #bingchat conversations…and just as predictably, there is now a huge #malvertising problem in Bing Chat.
It’s actually worse than #malware poisoned advertisements showing up in search engine results for a couple of reasons.
We could be using #AI tools to help with things like searching for #malware or develop #threatmodels or tailor #cybersecurity controls. A company like #microsoft could use it for some of these things (they have a widely used threat modeling methodology and associated tool). Instead they are using it to trick people with #bingchat and make #malvertising worse.