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Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit

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1160 points vxvxvx | 2 comments | 16 Nov 25 11:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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lijok ◴[16 Nov 25 16:10 UTC] No.45946125{3}[source]▶
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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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1. tomhow ◴[18 Nov 25 02:42 UTC] No.45960825{5}[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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2. 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.