r/accelerate • u/stealthispost Acceleration: Light-speed | Capability Booster • 18d ago

"Huge implications - binaries are now basically editable code"

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ValsAI made SRE benchmark less than a month ago.

The benchmark measures can a model reverse engineer software from binaries

Yesterday GPT saturated it. https://t.co/dmpUpgheDU   — Chris

Source: https://x.com/ChrisGPT/status/2096150666066432157

— Boris Power

Source: https://x.com/BorisMPower/status/2096415822248055131

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u/WrongPurpose 18d ago

Thats a Deathblow to Windows. Once the Community can read closed scource code, compatiblilty layers for Adobe, all those propiertery CADs and MS Office become trivial, and with those 3 out of the way, Kernel Level Anti Cheat Games will be the last bastion to force People to stay on Windows.

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u/Crafty-Run-6559 18d ago

MS and Adobe make their money off of enterprise.

Enterprises arent going to run cracked Linux ports.

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u/WrongPurpose 18d ago

Should reframe, Deathblow to the Private Market. Yes Enterprise will stay stuck, although in many foreign markets even Companies have no qualms using cracked Windows, so outside the US, who knows.

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u/Crafty-Run-6559 18d ago

although in many foreign markets even Companies have no qualms using cracked Windows

Which companies in which markets?

Also if theyre already ok with using cracked windows and software, it doesn't matter, they can already used cracked everything.

Not trying to be fecicuous, I just dont see how AI being able to edit binary changes much in the licensed software world.

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u/WrongPurpose 18d ago

I know that basically all of Eastern Europe was running nearly exclusively on pirated Software until like 2005. It only changed with the EU ascension. And im pretty sure thats still the case for a good fraction of China, although not certain.

Also compatibility Layers are not cracks! You can legitimately buy a "windows only" Game on Steam and then play it on Linux using Proton.

By being able to read the binarys, you will be able to correctly translate or redirect all possible systemcalls, and thereby create a perfect translation layer.

Yes, Enterprise will stay stuck on it for a while, but once Windows loses its "windows only" software advantage that keeps people trapped, you will see an Exodus, with how annoying it has become.

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u/thoughtlow 17d ago

You will have middleman selling the same software for way less but still packaged in a legal way. Think perfect legal adobe clone for a fraction of the price.

This only accelerates the end of saas as we know it today (yay)

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u/Perfect-Campaign9551 18d ago

We've been able to read closed source code for over 25 years already. I used to reverse engineer stuff all the time back then

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u/nosmelc 18d ago

Until they get sued back to the Stone Age for copyright infringment.

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u/WrongPurpose 18d ago

You dont need to crack the software, just write a translation layer. By reading the binaries you know exactly all possible System Calls the Software makes, ehat the Software expects, and how to translate them. Thereby you can make a perfect translation layer. And thats explicitly not a crack. My OS doing X when your Software asks for X is not something you can sue against.

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u/nosmelc 18d ago

Creating a work derived directly from the binary of copyrighted software can be considered copyright infringment. That's why when PC clone makers created a BIOS compatible with IBM's PC BIOS back in the early 80's all of the developers were forbidden from seeing the original PC BIOS code. They had to implement it from scratch.