Three things to learn to stay afloat in today’s digital world
You’re more likely to get hired if you brag about some sort of AI-related skill. You’ll feel more protected against scams if you take self-defense classes. And finally, you’ll understand cyber threats a bit better if you know what’s happening in the world.
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You’re more likely to get hired if you brag about some sort of AI-related skill. You’ll feel more protected against scams if you take self-defense classes. And finally, you’ll understand cyber threats a bit better if you know what’s happening in the world.
For us, this past week has been marked by numerous breaches and data leaks, but do we even bother? I’ll leave a couple of links to the biggest and the most, I’d say, shocking privacy violation stories at the end of this article in case you are curious.
A few other things caught my attention recently. First, naturally, is AI seeping into our everyday lives through the smallest of holes. Do you feel like a dinosaur if you are not using AI? It seems that many employees are being pressured into vibe’ing at work by using some large language model (LLM).
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I talked to a bunch of developers and programmers, and it seems that they’re having to do more and more of what they hate – proofing code written by AI instead of writing their own.
Ironically, I couldn’t use some of the written answers as they were obviously written using AI. Naturally, they were written by the people who praise AI the most.
Not that long ago, people would use AI in secret. Can it be so that this is now considered to be vogue?
Well, I’m more woke than vogue myself, as I can trust nothing and no one. This week, I got an article submission. After getting suspicious of the artificial first few paragraphs, I ran the whole article through an AI checker tool, and it said it was written by AI. When I approached the writer about it, he denied it but also said the following: "I just used it to rephrase my written content."
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This is a red flag to me, but others would just shrug it off. I once told you about a coworker giving me feedback written by ChatGPT. Is this a new normal?
Speaking of which, self-defense classes seem to have become the new normal to protect against cyber threats. One survey revealed that more and more organizations are reporting targeted attacks against executives, and they are getting increasingly worried that what began as a digital attack could cause physical harm.
Self-defence is certainly a good skill to have. Another layer that could help organizations and individuals is understanding geopolitical tensions and being at least aware of armed conflicts, as they’ve transformed cybersecurity into a core business risk.
“With the increasing convergence of politics and cybercrime, you can't just focus on technical indicators of compromise or attack vectors to make the most accurate and comprehensive assessment anymore," Ashley Jess, an Intel 471 senior intelligence analyst, said.
But it begs the question – has it ever been enough to focus on a small task without seeing the bigger picture? Are we horses who need vision blockers to focus? Maybe we do, just so as not to get too depressed with the world's problems. I want to end this with what Nicki Minaj once told a little girl on the Ellen DeGeneres show.
STAY IN SCHOOL.
