AI failed to properly patch software flaws 74% of the time, 1Password's study warns
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ZDNET's key takeaways
- A new study shows the effectiveness of AI-generated patches.
- Only 26% of the patches generated were actually usable.
- AI isn't ready to patch the planet, but it can be used in cyberdefense.
New research has revealed that artificial intelligence and large language models (LLMs) are not ready to take on the task of creating fixes and patching security vulnerabilities.
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1Password's new security research team, Off-By-1-Labs, published a new study on Thursday that explored what happens when you give LLMs free rein to generate fixes for new, complex vulnerabilities.
AI discovers bugs at scale, but can it also patch them?
The Off-By-1-Labs started with a hypothesis: frontier AI models would be able to produce "reasonably high patch success rates" -- perhaps...
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