Oh, *Now* You Care About Shadow AI

Right. So apparently everyone’s been letting their employees loose with Large Language Models and other AI crap without a single goddamn thought for security. Shocking. The Hackernews is reporting on a webinar – because of course it’s a webinar, gotta sell something – about “Shadow AI.” What the hell *is* Shadow AI? It’s all those AI tools people are using at work that IT doesn’t know about. Like they haven’t had enough problems already.

The gist is this: employees are uploading sensitive company data to public AI services, creating a massive security risk. Data leakage, compliance violations, intellectual property theft… the usual dumpster fire. This webinar, sponsored by some vendor I’ve never heard of (and frankly don’t *want* to hear of), promises to help you “discover and control” this mess. They want to sell you tools to find these rogue AI instances and supposedly manage them. Like a fancy ‘find my phone’ app for corporate stupidity.

Apparently, they’re talking about things like data loss prevention (DLP) integration, usage monitoring, and risk scoring. Groundbreaking stuff, really. It’s all just basic security hygiene applied to a new problem that shouldn’t *be* a problem if people weren’t so eager to jump on every shiny new tech fad without thinking. They also mention the potential for hackers exploiting these Shadow AI tools – which is the only reason anyone’s paying attention now, let’s be real.

Honestly? You should have locked this shit down months ago. But no, you were probably too busy arguing about whether to use tabs or spaces in your code. Now you need a webinar and overpriced software to fix *your* mess. Fantastic.

Link: https://thehackernews.com/2025/08/webinar-discover-and-control-shadow-ai.html

Related Anecdote: I once had to clean up a system where someone was using an AI chatbot to “help” write SQL queries. The chatbot, bless its silicon heart, kept generating queries that dropped entire tables. Entire. Tables. The user claimed it was “more efficient.” I swear, some people shouldn’t be allowed near a keyboard, let alone artificial intelligence. It took me three days and a full backup restore to fix the damage. Don’t even get me started on the audit logs.

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