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Re: Malicious skills targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users

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Post by throwup238 »

zem wrote: post #55
throwup238 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you thinking of Agent Smith in the Matrix? > I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural reso…

no, i remembered it being a quote from some famous scientist, and googling a bit now I see it was stephen hawking: I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

That’s fun! Looks like he said it at the 1994 Macworld Expo. I wonder if that inspired the Matrix quote a few years later.

Re: Malicious skills targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users

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Post by accrual »

acedTrex wrote: post #50
nancyminusone wrote: post #30

>Unless you have been living under a rock, you’ve head of ClawdBot and its incredible rise to fame. Nope, never heard of it. Is it a rock worth living under?

Is there room? i'd like to join you under your rock

I build my Minecraft houses with cobblestone ceilings so that I am always living under a rock.

Re: Malicious skills targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users

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Post by Legend2440 »

skrebbel wrote: post #60

You can tell immediately which commenters here didn't read past the clickbait headline.

Agreed. This is a standard supply chain attack that has little to do with AI except that it is written in the 'english-as-a-scripting-language' that LLMs execute.

Every repository is vulnerable to this kind of attack, and pip/npm have been attacked in many times in similar ways.

Re: Malicious skills targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users

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Post by phillmv »

lukev wrote: post #48

Watching folks speed-run this whole thing is kind of funny from the outside. I wonder if anyone with a correct mental model of how LLM agents work (i.e, does not conceptualize them as intelligent entities) has actually granted them any permissions for their own life... personally, I couldn't imagine doing so. Let alone crypto, the risk of reputational loss for actions performed on my behalf (even just spamming person…

i can't imagine running these things outside of a vm and it's bizarre to see how many people yolo it

Re: Malicious skills targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users

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Post by antif »

zem wrote: post #55
throwup238 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you thinking of Agent Smith in the Matrix? > I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural reso…

no, i remembered it being a quote from some famous scientist, and googling a bit now I see it was stephen hawking: I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

Interesting that he would consider software a new life form. I think our organizations are really the higher life form above Apex humans.

When we have computer systems acting as corporation owners, and we begin to thrive in working for those corporations… That’s really going to change the picture.

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