Security News > 2024 > June > Open-source security in AI

Many of the underlying open-source projects are unvetted for the purpose of AI. In return for the massive financial benefits corporations receive by leveraging open source in AI, it is in their best interest to contribute towards community efforts and to the foundational security of the open-source components up front.

Making deep and lasting positive change for security universally will require collaboration across industry participants, both for ease and financial gain, as well as to avoid the involvement of further oversight by governmental organizations in both the open source and private sectors.

Companies can organize with foundations or other firms and cost-split security efforts to achieve this and higher security health.

This joint effort could also develop a unified front on AI security with global organizations to reduce systemic risks and improve the overall security landscape.

Through concerted, proactive efforts, the industry could reduce the risk of the next "Log4shell" in AI and avoid a billion-dollar security disaster that can potentially release the sensitive data of users and AI models across many sectors.

Invest in the security of your open-source infrastructure and prevent the next billion-dollar security incident.

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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/06/12/ai-open-source-security/