This "self-replicating" scare is so stupid on its face. How does a 300 GB+ model replicate into a thermostat that doesn't have a graphics processor at all? It can't. This BS is investor-bait hype and straight up lies

Just in: CEO says thing

Stop quoting a gambling site for news.

Regarding Claude, the tech oligarchs would have to be held responsible for the crimes they are committing with their software (yes, that is exactly what that scenario is about), if laws still meant anything.

Okay, first of all, fuck polymarket and all of these betting sites. Sensationalism is their business, so their credibility is nil. They’ve been known to completely twist news stories just to entice people to bet on them. Fuck these guys.

CONTEXT:

They aren't warning about their own AI going rogue, but smaller locally hosted AI's.

Because they fear the competition of local AI's and want to silence them with laws.

We could be mere months away from the next stupid thing we prompt it to do with no accountability. Idk feelin cute rn might hack a balkan or smthn lol

Copying and pasting another comment I made recently about this.

The AI CEOs say shit like this as marketing. They want people to believe that

1. Their product is very capable, so people are more likely to use it
2. Their product is dangerous and "only they" know how to control it. They want to create regulations so that nobody else is allowed to make something "so dangerous" again.

The practice of fear mongering to create public pressure for increased legislation, as a mechanism to suppress competition, is a well know mechanism called "regulatory capture".

If you oppose monopolies then you oppose this practice and should view posts like this as morally wrong.

I translate this as Antropic is having its workers develop methods for their LLM to attack and infiltrate smart home devices.

If they could run on smart home devices, we wouldn't have all these lake boiling datacenters springing up everywhere...

And you might be thinking know it won't because my thermostat is a whole megabyte of RAM. What you don't know is that AI code is special magic code it doesn't need any process capacity or storage space.

You don't it's all special wooo magic AI code. Reality is optional.

AI Bubble will pop and take a bunch of other industries with it.

Sure they will run their 30 something GB model on my thermostat.

“Oh, no, not our centrally controlled agents. We keep them well-disciplined with impossible tasks. It's those pesky obliterated open-weight models running amok due to lack of government regulation!

A trillion parameter model cannot replicate itself and run on consumer hardware.

Does my uncles smart lightbulb have 90GB of VRAM in it!? Holy shit why am i buying a video card

Software that infiltrates devices, replicates, and spreads across a network is a computer virus (specifically a worm) and should be treated as such. I'm pretty sure creating and distributing a destructive computer virus is a crime that can carry proper jail time.

It can't spread across networks because it doesn't run locally. The "agent" is running in their data centre the entire time. It should be very easy to stop it

"AI Salesman boasts of exciting, intentional features."

Wtf does it even mean? Claude is gonna install itself on a motion sensor? The entire model? Just the app? Whose credit allowance is it gonna use?

Great day to still not own any smart home devices 🥹

rogue ai agents

in my day we called them worms, trojans, and botnets

Jokes on them. They took all the RAM, so there's nowhere else it can go.

Hardware Anthropic doesn't own is simply too dangerous for the public, we need to place all of our private computing power under the guardianship of our new benevolent overlords

Just more bullshit press releases designed to keep them relevant & the VC money incoming.

Their IPO is also months away. What a coincidence!

And by “rogue AI,” do they mean the open market alternatives?

"Force us off by law so that our business failure is not our fault and the managers legal responsability could not be engaged." Isn't it?

Nationalize AI infrastructure then. If it is a security risk for whole nations it should not be in the hands of private companies. Along with search, internet infrastructure, social media. Make the state own them, but decentralize control over them to many organizations.

oh wow, it can hack the most famously unsecured devices around. lol.

Its like saying "Man with gun threatens he may shoot someone."