Anthropic Now Offers A Free Vulnerability-Finding Service For Open-Source Software
'Projects that join will receive thorough, periodic security scans by our strongest models at no cost.'
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Anthropic is offering open-source projects a new way to check for vulnerabilities with its OSS Scanner. "Projects that join will receive thorough, periodic security scans by our strongest models at no cost," the company announced.
As they've shown recently, AI models are excellent at finding (and exploiting) vulnerabilities. The new scanner could give open-source coders early alerts about potential security issues for free, albeit with the tradeoff that reports won't be reviewed by humans.
"The outputs of this opt-in vulnerability scanner will be fully model-generated, without human review or triage," Anthropic explained. "This will enable faster and more frequent scanning, but means that it is possible reports will be incorrect or invalid. These reports will be generated by our strongest models (including Claude Mythos) to give open-source projects...
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