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Re:Superhuman AI Exfiltrates Emails by sarelta on Monday January 12, 2026 @01:57PM (#46592651)
I'm impressed Superhuman seems to have handled this so well - lots of big names are fumbling with AI vuln disclosures. Grammarly is not necessarily who I would have bet on to get it right
Re:Superhuman AI Exfiltrates Emails by empiko on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @02:52AM (#46598320)
I wonder how they handled it. Everybody's connecfing their AI to the Web, but it automatically means that any data AI has access to can be extracted by the attacker. The only safe way forward is to 1. disconnect the Web or 2. perhaps to filter the generated URLs aggressively.
Re:Superhuman AI Exfiltrates Emails by ttoinou on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @03:39AM (#46598592)
We should have a clearer view of permissions of the AI, operations it does, and have one button per day to accept/deny operations from given data. Instead of auto approval.
Re:Superhuman AI Exfiltrates Emails by wat10000 on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @04:44PM (#46608632)
Private data, untrusted data, communication: an LLM can safely have two of these, but never all three.

Browsing the web is both communication and untrusted data, so it must never have access to any trusted data if it has the ability to browse the web.

The problem is, so much of what people want from these things involves having all three.

Re:Superhuman AI Exfiltrates Emails by TeMPOraL on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @05:34PM (#46609323)
> The problem is, so much of what people want from these things involves having all three.

Pretty much. Also there's no way of "securing" LLMs without destroying the quality that makes them interesting and useful in the first place.

I'm putting "securing" in scare quotes because IMO it's fool's errand to even try - LLMs are fundamentally not securable like regular, narrow-purpose software, and should not be treated as such.

Re:Superhuman AI Exfiltrates Emails by bossyTeacher on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @06:35PM (#46625621)
> I'm putting "securing" in scare quotes because IMO it's fool's errand to even try - LLMs are fundamentally not securable like regular, narrow-purpose software, and should not be treated as such.

Indeed. Between this fundamental unsecurability and alignment, I struggle to see how OpenAI/Anthropic/etc will manage to give their investors enough RoI to justify the investment

Re:Superhuman AI Exfiltrates Emails by djaouen on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @07:00PM (#46610374)
Are you f*cking kidding me? Grammarly is like the best one!