> 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.
I could not imagine being as salty as the original poster seems to be about Alex Wang. To hold that amount of hate for a superior that is more successful than you can’t be good for the soul
Reminds me of how when the Playstation 2 came out, Sony started planting articles about how it was so powerful that the Iraqi government was buying thousands of them to turn into a supercomputer (including unnamed military officials bringing up Sony marketing points). https://www.wnd.com/2000/12/7640/
But it was that good for the price point. And you could run Linux on it. That was the Beowulf cluster era. Lots of universities were doing that.
You may be mixing up the PS2 and PS3. The PS3 found some marginal use in computing clusters; the PS2 did not.
Why isn’t Anthropic held liable for crimes committed with their product? I feel totally befuddled as to why that is not the conversation, but rather Anthropic is doing a victory lap like they are the good guys despite their product enabling widespread fraud while they amass outrageous, undeserved, profits. Why is Anthropic not liable?
Because deciding how much culpability they have is not a solved problem.
Thanks for responding. Solving it will involve public discourse. The negative externality will not be forever ignored and frantic, knee-jerk, legislative or judicial solutions are rarely optimal. Everyone, including Anthropic, benefits from starting the culpability discussion now, ideally in a context just like this. Maybe that’s exactly what Anthropic is doing by framing this news as “we stopped some cybercrime” rather than “we were involved in some cybercrime.” But smart people shouldn’t fall for such a blatant shifting of corporate liability onto the public, imo, and that’s why I’m confused. I must be missing something fundamental.
My First Reading Of This Headline Was There Is A Company That Makes Literal Paper Named Anthropic Whose Paper Smells Like Literal Bullshit Which Is Also My Final Reading
But it was that good for the price point. And you could run Linux on it. That was the Beowulf cluster era. Lots of universities were doing that.
You may be mixing up the PS2 and PS3. The PS3 found some marginal use in computing clusters; the PS2 did not.
A quick google will show you that it was. I remember because I was in college at the time and that's how I learned what a Beowulf cluster was. Maybe PS3 was more successful or more popular, but there were definitely PS2 clusters.
> you're API is tied to a bankaccount, There are a lot of middlemen like open router who gladly accept crypto.
Can you show me exactly how to pay for open router with monero? Because it doesn’t seem possible.
There are tons of websites that will happily swap Monero for Ethereum, and then you can use it to pay. Most of those websites never actually do KYC or proper fund verification, unless you're operating on huge amounts or is suspicious in some other way.
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.…
I think the high order bit here is you were working with models from previous generations. In other words, since the latest generation of models have greater capabilities the story might be very different today.
Not sure why you're being downvoted, your observation is very correct here, newer models are indeed a lot better, and even at the time that foundational model (even if fine tuned) might've been worse than a commercial model from OpenAI/Anthropic.
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.…
> now run by a teenage data labeller
Do you mean Alexandr Wang? Wiki says he is 28 years old. I don't understand.
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.…