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Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit

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1160 points vxvxvx | 1 comments | 16 Nov 25 11:32 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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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antonvs ◴[16 Nov 25 17:07 UTC] No.45946592{3}[source]▶
Presumably this is all referring to Alexander Wang, who's 28 now. The data-labeling company he co-founded, Scale AI, was acquired by Meta at a valuation of nearly $30 billion.

But I suppose the criticism is that he doesn't have deep AI model research credentials. Which raises the age-old question of how much technical expertise is really needed in executive management.

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1. tomrod ◴[16 Nov 25 21:22 UTC] No.45948520{4}[source]▶
> Which raises the age-old question of how much technical expertise is really needed in executive management.

For whomever you choose to set as the core decision maker, you get out whatever their expertise is with minor impact by their guides.

Scaling a business is a skill set. It's not a skill set that captures or expands the frontier of AI, so it's clearly in the realm to label the gentleman's expensive buyout is a product development play instead of a technology play.