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Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit

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1160 points vxvxvx | 10 comments | 16 Nov 25 11:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom

Earlier thread: Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45918638 - Nov 2025 (281 comments)
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KaiserPro ◴[16 Nov 25 12:33 UTC] No.45944641[source]▶
When I worked at a FAANG with a "world leading" AI lab (now run by a teenage data labeller) as an SRE/sysadmin I was asked to use a modified version of a foundation model which was steered towards infosec stuff.

We were asked to try and persuade it to help us hack into a mock printer/dodgy linux box.

It helped a little, but it wasn't all that helpful.

but in terms of coordination, I can't see how it would be useful.

the same for claude, you're API is tied to a bankaccount, and vibe coding a command and control system on a very public system seems like a bad choice.

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jgalt212 ◴[16 Nov 25 13:42 UTC] No.45945088[source]▶
> now run by a teenage data labeller

sick burn

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y-curious ◴[16 Nov 25 14:42 UTC] No.45945472[source]▶
I don’t know anything about him, but if he is running a department at Meta, he as at the very least a political genius and a teenage data labeller
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lijok ◴[16 Nov 25 16:10 UTC] No.45946125{3}[source]▶
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1. antonvs ◴[16 Nov 25 20:41 UTC] No.45948213{4}[source]▶
> They hired a teenager to run one of their departments

Except they didn’t. The person in question was 28 when they hired him.

He was a teenager when he cofounded the company that was acquired for thirty billion dollars. But the taste of those really sour grapes must be hard to deal with.

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2. KaiserPro ◴[16 Nov 25 20:59 UTC] No.45948352[source]▶
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3. NewsaHackO ◴[16 Nov 25 22:06 UTC] No.45948854[source]▶
I could not imagine being as salty as the original poster seems to be about Alex Wang. To hold that amount of hate for a superior that is more successful than you can’t be good for the soul
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4. lijok ◴[16 Nov 25 23:31 UTC] No.45949451[source]▶
You’re taking this a tad too seriously
5. antonvs ◴[17 Nov 25 02:36 UTC] No.45950398[source]▶
> Comic hyperbole darling.

Even if you say so yourself.

> I know that's hard to understand, especially when you're one of the start up elect, who still believes.

There's a lot of projection going on in that sentence.

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6. BobbyJo ◴[17 Nov 25 06:36 UTC] No.45951306[source]▶
a superior is kind of a loaded way to say "executive" or "company's leadership".
7. KaiserPro ◴[17 Nov 25 09:01 UTC] No.45951973{3}[source]▶
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8. tomhow ◴[18 Nov 25 02:40 UTC] No.45960810[source]▶
> Comic hyperbole darling. I know that's hard to understand, especially when you're one of the start up elect, who still believes.

Please omit patronizing swipes like this from comments on HN. You have no idea what the parent commenter "believes", but we know very well that sneering like this only makes HN worse. Please take a moment to remind yourself of the guidelines and make an effort to observe them in future. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

9. tomhow ◴[18 Nov 25 02:42 UTC] No.45960825[source]▶
> But the taste of those really sour grapes must be hard to deal with

Please don't sneer at fellow community members on HN, and don't reply to a bad comment with a worse one; it just makes HN seem like a more mean and miserable place. The comment would have been fine without that last sentence.

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10. antonvs ◴[18 Nov 25 14:43 UTC] No.45966796[source]▶
Content is more important to me than tone.

Much of this subthread is nothing more than gossip about someone people are apparently jealous of. Talk about a "mean and miserable place." Techbros upset that they didn't cash out as big.