Bugged: The Ugly Side Of No Code AI Platforms

"What is'best practice' at the time of writing may slowly become'bad practice' as the cybersecurity landscape evolves." Modern-day deep learning (DL) models, especially the ones powering sophisticated NLP based applications, have become so advanced that they can even run code diagnostics and perform interventions on a codebase. For example, GitHub recently released Copilot, an AI-based programming assistant that can generate code in popular programming languages. All one has to do is give some context to the Copilot, such as comments, function names, and surrounding code. Copilot is built on OpenAI's GPT-3 that is trained on open-source code, including "public code…with insecure coding patterns", thus giving rise to the potential for "synthesise[d] code that contains these undesirable patterns".