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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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gpi ◴[16 Nov 25 14:44 UTC] No.45945486[source]▶
The below amendment from the anthropic blog page is telling.

Edited November 14 2025:

Added an additional hyperlink to the full report in the initial section

Corrected an error about the speed of the attack: not "thousands of requests per second" but "thousands of requests, often multiple per second"

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AstroBen ◴[16 Nov 25 16:02 UTC] No.45946057[source]▶
There is absolutely no way a technical person would mix those up
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edanm ◴[16 Nov 25 20:54 UTC] No.45948313[source]▶
Right! It's well known that technical people never make mistakes.
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SiempreViernes ◴[16 Nov 25 21:18 UTC] No.45948468[source]▶
I think the expectation is more that serious people have their work checked over by other serious people to catch the obvious mistakes.
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1. szszrk ◴[17 Nov 25 09:00 UTC] No.45951969[source]▶
Serious people like to look at things through a magnifying glass. Which makes them miss a lot.

I've seen printed books checked by paid professionals that consisted a "replace all" populated without context. Creating a grammar error on every single page. Or ones where everyone just forgot to add page numbers. Or a large cook book where index and page numbers didn't mach, making it almost impossible to navigate.

I'm talking of pre-AI work, with publisher. Apparently it wasn't obvious for them.