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Dhillon: AI broke CAPTCHAs and passed the Turing test without enough panic
“One of my biggest anxieties is that, like, generally, to your point, CAPTCHAs are broken, right? Which, like, hey, we passed the Turing test a while ago. For some reason, we just blew past that and don't talk about it enough. We all are blowing past what effec…”
Dhillon: Generative AI reduced the cost of malicious online behavior to zero
“The cost to be a shitty person online went to kind of zero dollars over the last, like, three years. You got infinite text, infinite images.”
Dhillon: LLMs allow grandmothers to become cyber scammers
“It's not only that grandmothers are the ones being scammed, it's actually grandmothers can become scammers now, and it's because, right, because it's like, it's just easier than ever and that's actually the real issue. It's like, sometimes people talk about la…”
Alex Dhillon: Malicious AI outbound volume mirrors legitimate AI sales growth one-for-one
“Just as the volume of AI outbound has increased on like legitimate use cases where I'm sure you and I both deal with a ton of LinkedIn inbound or email inbound. It's basically been one for one on sort of the darker side of it as well.”
Dhillon: Roughly 85% of Critical Data Breaches Stem from Social Engineering
“But I guess my claim is that, like you know it's something like 85% of critical data breaches happen because of social engineering attacks.”
Dhillon: Cybersecurity Firms Historically Hesitate to Hunt Threats Outside Corporate Perimeters
“Historically, cybersecurity companies have been kind of, I think gun shy of stepping outside their perimeter and saying, hey, no, I'm going to go search for threats. Out in the world, like arbitrary websites, social media, wherever it is, and we're going to go…”
Dhillon: External threat detection has historically been a graveyard of services firms
“Candidly, this whole space is full of a graveyard of companies that were services companies, right? So, like, it intrinsically was a task so difficult that only humans can do it.”
Dhillon: Outtake AI's edge is trusted reporting pipelines with domain registrars
“I think the big differentiator, you know, in addition to all the agentic stuff is like, we've thought really deeply about how do we become how do we become the platform that is like trusted by domain registrars, hosts social platforms, et cetera, to be a high …”
Dhillon: Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar is an Outtake AI angel investor
“Worked directly for the pounder CTO, Shamsankar. Absolute goat. A shout out to him. Also one of our angel investors.”
Alex Dhillon: OpenAI is a customer of Outtake AI
“We've been lucky to work with phenomenal places like you know, OpenAI is one of our favorite customers really pushed us when you think about the kinds of cybersecurity threats that they might be dealing with.”
Dhillon: Creators were targeted first by AI impersonation due to public data
“The creators were the first ones to hit because they were the most chronically online, right? Is, is the short answer there. And in the early days when the models needed more data to train on, they were also the ones that had the most data available.”