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FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs

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1124 points CrankyBear | 1 comments | 11 Nov 25 18:32 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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phkahler ◴[11 Nov 25 19:41 UTC] No.45891830[source]▶
From TFA this was telling:

Thus, as Mark Atwood, an open source policy expert, pointed out on Twitter, he had to keep telling Amazon to not do things that would mess up FFmpeg because, he had to keep explaining to his bosses that “They are not a vendor, there is no NDA, we have no leverage, your VP has refused to help fund them, and they could kill three major product lines tomorrow with an email. So, stop, and listen to me … ”

I agree with the headline here. If Google can pay someone to find bugs, they can pay someone to fix them. How many time have managers said "Don't come to me with problems, come with solutions"

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zxspectrum1982 ◴[11 Nov 25 19:53 UTC] No.45891973[source]▶
Google is not paying anyone to find bugs. They are running AIs indiscriminately.
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1. surajrmal ◴[12 Nov 25 10:02 UTC] No.45898332[source]▶
A human at Google investigates all of the bugs fuzzers and AI find manually and manually writes bug reports for upstream with more analysis. They are certainly paid to do that. They are also paid to develop tooling to find bugs.

I'm not sure what you think you mean when you say "running AIs indiscriminately". It's quite expensive to run AI this way, so it needs to be done with very careful consideration.