The asymmetry of access to Fable-class models for attackers and defenders creates a dangerous gradient.

· Bits and Bobs 7/27/26
  • The asymmetry of access to Fable-class models for attackers and defenders creates a dangerous gradient.
    • Hugging Face at the beginning of the attack: "The platform's security team were initially stymied in their incident response (IR) by unnamed US LLM frontier model guardrails 'which cannot distinguish an incident responder from an attacker,' they said."
    • A cynical take from a HackerNews comment: "The product strategy of 'consumer-grade' AI making deliberately insecure software, and then selling you limited access to the model that can fix it (if they think you deserve to pay them) is just diabolical."
      • I think that take is too cynical, but it is the equilibrium the incentives will pull towards.
      • This recent paper shows that code produced by every major software model contained security vulnerabilities.

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