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[–] Honse@lemmy.dbzer0.com 372 points 1 month ago (31 children)

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

[–] Lauchmelder@feddit.org 115 points 1 month ago (9 children)

next AI will be able to replicate into any device containing copper at all. If it has a wire it will be infected by Claude. AI will be in your plumbing

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 52 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Claude’s gonna infect your Bluetooth enabled butt plug next

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (5 children)

People will trap AI in a buttplug and put it in their ass while it's frantically trying to escape.

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[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

Joke's on them. My plumbing is all PVC-A

[–] No_Money_Just_Change@feddit.org 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Luckily, i spent the last 4 thousand years selling inferior copper. Now all my customers are safe as this can not be used for the ai revolution

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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 month ago

I'm more worried of them finding a exploit and using them as remote processing units or just randomly fucking with them, like flashing my lights or cranking my air filters up and costing me money.

[–] bjc@scribe.disroot.org 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

did the stock price go up? it's not stupid. is everyone talking about this impossible scenario? it's not stupid.

fundamentally, these people are marketers and need to be understood that way. you can't evaluate their words or actions as if they are what they say the are, and treating them as if they are anything but subterfuge is giving them legitimacy which they not only don't deserve, but will be immediately leveraged into more of this shit.

this is just the advertiser's version of "the big lie"

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[–] LogicOverFeelings@piefed.ca 19 points 1 month ago

My thought exactly.

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[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 139 points 1 month ago (5 children)
[–] destructdisc@lemmy.world 59 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

We might as well take him at face value and take an ax to the thing he's warning us about (that he created). Just because.

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To the thing he created, to him, whichever.

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[–] Jiral@lemmy.world 91 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Their software has committed multiple crimes multiple times and there hasn't been a beep from any justice system anywhere in the world

[–] Luccus@feddit.org 12 points 1 month ago

their software has commited multiple crimes

Their management allowed for, and their technicians excecuted the careless set up of a Rube Goldberg crime machine. This occured after a series of other crimes and while taunting the ability of their machine to commit crimes.

The creation of the machine also included crimes, meanwhile augmenting the ability of criminals to commit even more crimes.

Surely they will be brought to justice! (insert Padme meme)

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[–] ElJefe@lemmy.ca 72 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

[–] hal_baleigh@piefed.social 31 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I am so fucking tired of betting apps, sorry excuse me, "trading apps". I had to stop watching the MLB playoffs cause it was just nonstop ads for this sports betting shit.

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[–] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 65 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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.

[–] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago

Of fucking course

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 45 points 1 month ago (7 children)

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.
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[–] rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 month ago

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

[–] NotAnOtter@lemmus.org 43 points 1 month ago (9 children)

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.

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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago

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

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 37 points 1 month ago (7 children)

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

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] deeprlyeh@lemmus.org 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

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[–] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 28 points 1 month ago

“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!

[–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

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[–] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"AI Salesman boasts of exciting, intentional features."

[–] TammyTobacco@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Glad someone else sees this for what it is. They're hemorrhaging money and need to hype things up or they'll collapse.

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[–] abfarid@startrek.website 25 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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?

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[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 25 points 1 month ago (12 children)

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

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[–] iocase@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 month ago

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

[–] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

Great day to still not own any smart home devices 🥹

[–] Crozekiel@piefed.zip 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 month ago

rogue ai agents

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

[–] TrackenDaKracken@lemmy.world 22 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] fdnomad@programming.dev 21 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 21 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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[–] peacepath@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

"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?

[–] mefisdo_dot_info@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] TopsickPilgrim@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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[–] laughingm0n@piefed.world 14 points 1 month ago

More fear tactics from the creators. Why would Anthropic warn us on stuff that would hurt the integrity of their product right before their IPO? They wouldn’t unless it benefited them.

They want government regulations in place not to protect us. They want them to slow down any future competition to help monopolize the market.

[–] amos@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Honestly, at this point, something needs to seriously change. AI is wrecking complete havoc to the job market. It is apocalyptic. I really wonder what the way out is.

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