Or any number of malfeasants.
Comment on Too much open-source AI is exposing itself to the web
adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Ollama with standard Gemma2 model open to the Internet. What could go wrong?
I call out this one because the Chinese government has already examined it for exploits and flaws.
Letting it run outside a sandbox on the Internet is tantamount to sharing any information and capabilities it has with the CCP.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
spit_evil_olive_tips@beehaw.org 2 days ago
exposing something like Ollama to the public internet is a bad idea, full stop. there’s no need to bring “omg China scary” xenophobia into it.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Nothing xenophobic about it. That’s just the model we already have documented information about. Notice I mentioned CCP and government, not “the Chinese”.
That’s like calling someone an antisemite for being against the Israeli or Iranian government.
spit_evil_olive_tips@beehaw.org 2 days ago
OK. can you link to that “documented information”?
because I googled “gemma chinese government” and nothing obvious popped up. but maybe I’m just out of the loop when it comes to reasons we should be afraid of those nefarious Chinese people who work for the Chinese government and/or the (insert ominous music here) Chinese Communist Party.
uh-huh. so, a thought experiment:
a genie gives me the list of IP address ranges that the Chinese government is using when it scans the internet for potential exploits.
I’m going to run Ollama, and expose it to the public internet…except I’m going to deny all traffic to & from those specific IP ranges.
that’s still a bad idea, right? because there are many many many other possible threat actors?
this is like the difference between someone telling you “lock your doors at night because of burglars” vs “lock your doors at night because of black people”. you’re showing your whole ass when you talk about cybersecurity in general but then make the jump to “cybersecurity is important because those sneaky Asians will hack you”.