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AI model supply chain risks are decades old, not new discoveries

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A recent essay highlighted the significant risks associated with AI model supply chains, drawing parallels to Ken Thompson's 1984 "Reflections on Trusting Trust" to illustrate the difficulty of auditing complex systems. The author agrees with the core premise that AI models are largely unauditable black boxes due to their training data, a concept explored in studies as early as 2021 with GitHub Copilot and more recently with Anthropic's research on data poisoning. However, the author argues that the urgency presented by the essay overlooks that these issues are not new and have been understood for decades, suggesting the problem lies more in industry adoption of existing solutions rather than a lack of knowledge. AI

IMPACT Highlights that long-standing issues in AI model security and auditability require better adoption of existing solutions rather than new discoveries.

RANK_REASON The item is an opinion piece analyzing and critiquing an existing essay on AI model supply chains, rather than reporting on a new event.

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AI model supply chain risks are decades old, not new discoveries

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Jonathan Santilli ·

    The AI Supply Chain Problem Is Real. It's also decades old.

    <p><em>Semgrep is right that models are black boxes we can't audit. But you don't need an attacker to poison a model. The internet already did. And the difference between those two threats is the part their essay skips.</em></p> <p><em>Disclosure: I work on AI-powered vulnerabili…

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