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🗣️ Hacker Plants Computer 'Wiping' Commands in Amazon's AI Coding Agent

「 A hacker compromised a version of Amazon’s popular AI coding assistant ‘Q’, added commands that told the software to wipe users’ computers, and then Amazon included the unauthorized update in a public release of the assistant this month 」

https://www.404media.co/hacker-plants-computer-wiping-commands-in-amazons-ai-coding-agent/

#aicoding #promptinjection #cybersecurity

Software innovation might be freezing in place—and AI could be to blame. Theo Browne points out that Copilot and ChatGPT often return React-style code even for Solid or Elixir projects. Why? Because they’ve seen React a million times more. Python 3 took a decade to overtake Python 2. If that transition had to happen today, would our dependence on AI suggestions keep us from making the jump?

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonippolito_aicoding-copilot-react-activity-7348333240757235713-VWoP

#AIliteracy#Copilot#AIcoding#React#Python#WebDev#JS#HTML#CSS