Side-channel hype distracts AI safety from fixing basic security gaps today
BlancheMinerva · x · 2026-09-19
A widely shared take argues that the recent AI side-channel attack, while real, has an extremely low theoretical bitrate and is entirely infeasible for weight exfiltration or hacking — so the outsized attention is misplaced.
The author frames the reaction as the recurring AI-safety complaint of focus: the community chases interesting, highly theoretical problems that may never materialize while failing at much more pedestrian, effective security measures today.
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