That generative AI is now a thing cannot have escaped your attention. No matter what line of business you’re in, it’s either being heralded as a game-changer or dismissed as just another over-hyped disruptor tech. I happen to be in both the security and media spaces, and my take falls firmly between these two extremes: it’s neither one nor the other. Yet.
There’s quite a lot of overlap between tech journalism and security, as communicating facts in a clearly understandable way is key to both. This is where generative AI systems currently fall flat as far as I’m concerned. Sure, you can ask something like ChatGPT to write you a blog entry, a news story, a feature article, even a threat intelligence or incident report, and it will likely appear to do a perfectly acceptable job. But appearances can be, and often are, misleading.
As someone with experience covering four decades (I know, how do I still look so young, right?) of writing about information security issues, I like to think I have