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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 ◴[] 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 ◴[] No.45945088[source]
> now run by a teenage data labeller

sick burn

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y-curious ◴[] 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 ◴[] No.45946125{3}[source]
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antonvs ◴[] 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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KaiserPro ◴[] No.45948352{5}[source]
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1. tomhow ◴[] No.45960810{6}[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