Benchmark is not designed for the red team testing. I don't even think it make sense to "fix" the issue the article is suggesting. Yes, you can break the running contest by driving a car. Does this mean we need to make running contest car-proof?
100% agree. it not only applies to the training time but also applies to the inference time. Domain specific context and skills will be the only moat for companies
Select to translate is almost a standard feature for translation software. Not sure if the situation gets better now, but back then the software was written, using clipboard as temporary storage is a very robust and maybe the only way to implement such feature.
Trivia: It's likely sending Ctrl+C and reading clipboard to get the selected text. No easy cross-platform API for this lol.
Also note that the software is very old and poorly maintained.
Some context for ppl who are not paranoid, it's a very old software and not very maintained since very long time ago. I'm pretty sure HTTPS was not common at the time. And the selection scanning a very common and wanted feature in many alternatives for windows, browsers, etc.
If there's anything we can learn from it - don't use obsolete software.