Sven Cattell
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@comathematician
Founder of @aivillage_dc. Former topologist. I blue team math. 🙂
We've been hard at work on the Generative Red Team event we're doing at @defcon for a while and are excited that the @WhiteHouse announced it this morning. Here's more details: aivillage.org/generative%20r…
“and your freedom is gone” would be a great way to destroy defcon’s brand and comes off as extreme punishment for a kid throwing sand in a sandbox. However your post does exhibit a commonality with why we have this issue: lack of contextual nuance. We have far too few people in the space willing to culturally guide people towards nuance that’s appropriate for the context of the situation/environment/audience. There are appropriate times for attention grabbing stunts. And its almost always targeting an audience of defenders & resource allocators. And beforehand there should be a deliberate process of understanding how the intended audience will receive it, what they can meaningfully do in response, dynamics of consent, laws, etc etc. People who are new to the space often miss all of that and try to repeat stuff without this nuance. Quick thrills in a world increasingly focused on attention. Even though the action has the tactical equivalent of throwing a brick through a window. Yea… glass can shatter. We all know! Outside of a longer attack chain (and all the other nuance mentioned) it means nothing. Buuuut… new people to the space aren’t often to detailed nuance. Few will read all this. So, for those people, i will just leave a picture of this sticker that someone gave me at defcon:
Generative Red Team 2 was a massive success. We paid $7350 in bounties. We learnt so much about bounties and reporting for ML. Thank you to everyone who participated!! (specific acks in the thread below)
