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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: 0.194s | 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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tim333 ◴[16 Nov 25 23:16 UTC] No.45949334[source]▶
I was just watching the Y Combinator interview with Alexandr Wang who I guess may be being referred to https://youtu.be/5noIKN8t69U

The teenage data labeler thing was a bit of an exaggeration. He did found scale.ai at nineteen which does data labeling amongst other things.

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ulfw ◴[17 Nov 25 01:22 UTC] No.45950072[source]▶
What other things?
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1. tim333 ◴[17 Nov 25 11:03 UTC] No.45952536[source]▶
They do testing like 'humanities last exam' and they build custom LLMs for some of the largest companies, the defense dept and other US govt stuff - bit here https://youtu.be/5noIKN8t69U?t=2037