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Malicious skills targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users

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Re: Malicious skills targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users

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Post by jstummbillig »

andai wrote: post #17
_se wrote: post #3

Anyone dumb enough to run this on their computer deserves it.

I think most people are buying separate computers to run it on. This is a nice example of why you might want to do that. (Though they're still hooking it up to their entire digital life, which also doesn't seem very reassuring.)

> I think most people are buying separate computers to run it on.

You must be joking.

Re: Malicious skills targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

add-sub-mul-div wrote: post #16
dispersed wrote: post #5

I'd call it "suspicious" that this latest idiocy came out of nowhere and got pushed so hard to normies, when results like this are 100% predictable... if it wasn't also consistent with how the AI industry itself operates.

It really is a huge bummer that the most important new technologies of this era have such a film of slime on them. Crypto, AI, whatever comes next, it's just no longer an era in which we can expect innovation to make our lives better. It enables grifters and scammers more than anyone else.

Like I say, the tech is cool but they are doomed to fail (partially because of grift) [although in context of crypto stablecoins/gold (paxos) is the one thing I liked and it did go great for me in terms of gold]

I hope it doesn't count as promotion but I had literally written a blog post about it and made an account literally named justforhn on mataroa when someone was discussing crypto with me in here or something

https://justforhn.mataroa.blog/blog/most-crypto-is-doomed-to...

Maybe its time for me to write part II: Most AI is doomed to fall, the tech is cool though.

I guess I can write it but I already write like this in HN. The procastination of writing specifically in a blog is something which hits me.

Is it just me or is it someone else too? Because on HN I can literally write like novels (or I may have genuinely written enough characters of a novel here, I might have to test it or something lol, got a cool idea right now to measure how many novels a person has written from just their username, time to code it)

(Edit after 1 hour: Made the project! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46829029#46829122) [See how many words you have written in Hacker News...]

here's the github pages link directly as well https://serjaimelannister.github.io/hn-words/

Re: Malicious skills targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users

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Post by tietjens »

dispersed wrote: post #5

I'd call it "suspicious" that this latest idiocy came out of nowhere and got pushed so hard to normies, when results like this are 100% predictable... if it wasn't also consistent with how the AI industry itself operates.

What is suspicious? What was “pushed”? The demand for a personal assistant AI bot is real. Even if I don’t personally share it.

Re: Malicious skills targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users

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Post by ruler88 »

This was inevitable, better now than later when the damage is less widespread. Now clawdbot (or whatever they decide to call themselves) will have to respond with better security safety nets. Individually will always naively download whatever is on the internet. Platforms needs to safeguard against that.

Remember the early days of Windows? yea it's gonna happen again with AI.

Re: Malicious skills targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users

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Post by idiotsecant »

add-sub-mul-div wrote: post #16
dispersed wrote: post #5

I'd call it "suspicious" that this latest idiocy came out of nowhere and got pushed so hard to normies, when results like this are 100% predictable... if it wasn't also consistent with how the AI industry itself operates.

It really is a huge bummer that the most important new technologies of this era have such a film of slime on them. Crypto, AI, whatever comes next, it's just no longer an era in which we can expect innovation to make our lives better. It enables grifters and scammers more than anyone else.

Yes, grifters latching onto the newest technology to sell snake oil is a brand new phenomenon and definitely not literally a fundamental part of new technology.
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