I’m seeing a lot of denial and logical fallacies on Mastodon about LLM capability to find security bugs.
I get it that when folks have concluded that LLMs are harmful, they want to believe that LLMs fail at everything. But a list of correctly-identified bad things about LLMs does not logically imply that LLMs can’t find security bugs.
Henri Sivonen
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2026-04-13 17:24:10 UTC
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