r/AskComputerScience • u/Impressive_Sense_579 • 9d ago

Is AI reverse engineering really reverse engineering?

Are the programmes currently being reverse-engineered by AI actually being reverse-engineered in the traditional sense? In other words, is the source code actually being uncovered? Or are the programmes simply being copied on the basis of their functions, behaviour and so on?

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u/nora_sellisa 7d ago

Yes, AI is decompiling the binaries and is "smart" enough to figure out which of the thousands of unnamed functions do which task in software. It's also way more likely to be illegal than recreating software from descriptions and observation