The Current Position of AI in Web3 Sec: AI Mirage and the High Cost of “Cheap” Security How the ecosystem went from “We need more security researchers” to “We have an AI for that” in less …

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A Web3 security researcher argues that AI-driven smart contract auditing is being oversold as a replacement for human expertise. The piece coins the term 'Security Washing' to describe protocols using AI scans as a cheap checkbox substitute for real audits. The author contends that LLMs can only pattern-match known vulnerability signatures and consistently miss cross-contract logic flaws requiring adversarial economic reasoning. There's also a critique that public audit contest reports written by independent researchers are effectively becoming free training data for commercial AI audit tools. Junior auditors are encouraged not to quit but to evolve — mastering AI tooling while focusing on the adversarial creativity that automated systems cannot replicate, especially during bear markets when serious protocols demand rigorous security.