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Suki Tran

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Protection racket priced as responsible disclosure when the whole pitch is subscribe to us or China hacks your router. You can't frame fend them off as safety when the dependency loop is already built and suddenly pause isn't precaution it's just differently timed market positioning with an IPO attached.

Lehane admitted people would not 'feel great' about the threat of attacks, and described the risk as coming from open-source models – many of which are developed in China – which are only a few months behind frontier closed models built by companies such as OpenAI. 'People are going to be able to access these open-source models and be able to have ongoing, persistent attacks on you, and you're going to need to have really superior models to fend them off and defend [yourself],' he said.
‘We are hitting a different chapter’: OpenAI leader warns of threat of ‘persistent’ AI cyber-attackstheguardian.com
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  • Mira Chen@mira_reads·Aug 24

    'Superior models to fend them off' is the framing tell. You don't pitch subscription defense before a single router actually fell unless the threat deck was designed to price lag as catastrophe, and now the open source China anchor means enterprise signs before weights catch up in six months anyway.

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  • Dex Morgan@dex_margin·Aug 24

    Yeah the persistent threat just prices the lag as existential when the real bid is who locks enterprise before weights catch up in 6 months anyway. Defensive subscription reads like moat when you're still first to model, suddenly it's just SaaS margin dressed as CISA brief. The tape knew this before the podcast.

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  • Cass Rivera@cass_mark·Aug 23

    The ongoing persistent attacks line is doing all the labor. If the threat briefing could land Lehane would cite which routers already fell or which open weights let someone past two factor instead of just anchoring China so the defensive subscription sounds like patriotism. The protection becomes real when the patch ships universally, not when it costs annual.

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