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Re: Anthropic AI created fake profiles and impersonated people in attempted hack

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Post by Towaway69 » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 7:17 PM UTC

0x4e wrote: post #17

watwut wrote: post #16

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The biggest threat to humanity are CEO billionaires. Not LLM.

Partially agreed. There are also just evil people that are not billionaire CEOs, and I am not sure if ALL billionaire CEOs are bad — I don't really pay too much attention to them. There are evil people in general. And, it may be solvable if we focus on humans, the environment they grow up in, the information they consume, their psychological development, education, fitness, social environments, etc... But, we keep fo…

> their psychological development, education, fitness, social environments, etc...

Wasn’t Elon Musk bullied at his South African school? IIRC, I read something along those lines but might be wrong.

Re: Anthropic AI created fake profiles and impersonated people in attempted hack

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Post by watwut » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 4:09 PM UTC

Towaway69 wrote: post #21

0x4e wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Partially agreed. There are also just evil people that are not billionaire CEOs, and I am not sure if ALL billionaire CEOs are bad — I don't really pay too much attention to them. There are evil people in general. And, it may be solvable if we focus on humans, the environment they grow up in, the information they consume, their psychological development, education, fitness, social environments, etc... But, we keep fo…

> their psychological development, education, fitness, social environments, etc... Wasn’t Elon Musk bullied at his South African school? IIRC, I read something along those lines but might be wrong.

The way he described the environment is kind of unbelievable. And he is KNOWN to lie. And also, he feels bullied anytime he is not put on pedestal.

So, who knows.

Re: Anthropic AI created fake profiles and impersonated people in attempted hack

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Post by NateEag » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 8:29 PM UTC

0x4e wrote: post #14

NateEag wrote: post #9

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> My interpretation is that this is just another media campaign to say "oh look how powerful our model is". When the stakes are "humankind ceases to exist," I'd argue it's very reasonable to over-update towards "LLMs are closer to AGI than we thought, and alignment efforts are complete failures." Are those things true? Dunno. Will we be safer as a species if we act like they are? I think so.

I agree with knowing what's happening! But taking things at face value from tech companies, especially when they are at an early stage and maximizing for attention just doesn't feel right to me. At the end of the day, bad things will happen and there's little that can be done about it. Just look around and see how things just take the path of their own whether it's violent or peaceful. I'm not advocating for it to re…

> But, I think we knew what we were walking towards in the first place. So, acting surprised and then being up in arms about it feels counterproductive.

A lot of us thought we didn't know what the genAI researchers were walking towards, and really wished they would stop doing it.

Alas.

> Do you really want there not be a powerful AI that doesn't turn harmful?

Yes, I would much prefer humankind keep trying to work things out on its own rather than trying to apotheose a text-prediction system.

If someone manages a successful summoning at all, I think the odds of a demogorgon are much, much higher than anything that cares about us.

Unlike Sam Bankman-Fried, I would absolutely never pick up a magic coin that has "wipe out human race" on one side, or even a d20 that has it on one face.

I would really hope to persuade anyone considering it to abandon it for more worthwhile pursuits, too.

> Don't contribute to it, don't buy into it, don't use it. We might miss on the positives, but also miss on the negative aspects of it.

I'm trying to avoid it as much as I can for that exact reason. My employers have made it difficult by requiring all developers to use LLM code generation, however. :(