r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • 19d ago

Artificial Intelligence Anthropic CEO warns of AI-driven botnet 'swarm' taking over the entire internet — 'In 6–12 months such a swarm could be capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet'

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-ceo-warns-of-ai-driven-botnet-swarm-taking-over-the-entire-internet-in-6-12-months-such-a-swarm-could-be-capable-of-taking-over-the-entire-internet-with-a-persistent-botnet
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u/ColdFreezer 19d ago

Now the bots can do this at scale and poison the world’s biggest source of information. Killing the distribution of information and stealing your data at mass scale as well!

Great solution!

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u/Cosmosn8 19d ago

It’s already happening, ai comment and ai post trying to sell pet dental product

https://www.reddit.com/r/aislop/s/wOxJMNxsa5

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u/Practical-Cook5042 19d ago

ooh pet dental product 🤩

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u/stargarnet79 19d ago

Oh my god I got an ad but it was for dog water

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u/Revolutionary_Sun946 19d ago

That was a product that was advertised in "Ren and Stimpy".

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u/notmyredditacct 19d ago

you fool! <slap>

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u/Revolutionary_Sun946 19d ago

What rolls down stairs

Alone or in pairs

Runs over your neighbours dog

It fits on your back

It's good for a snack

It's.......

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u/notmyredditacct 19d ago

all kids love Log.

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u/Pristine_Sherbert_22 18d ago

Better than bad…. It’s good!

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u/Buckwheat469 19d ago

I was just saying that dogs have it made. They just play with a fluffy toy for a few minutes and their teeth are clean. Meanwhile we shove a spikey stick into our mouths and try to polish our teeth. I want a fluffy toy to chew on too.

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u/Ketheres 19d ago

To be fair a dog needs their teeth for less than a quarter of the time we need ours, and we generally feed them far less sugar than we feed ourselves.

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u/Crayola_ROX 19d ago

It’s becoming very easy to see it happening on threads. A dead app suddenly has engagement

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u/turningsteel 18d ago

Yeah that's no different than an influencer making a post about things to do in city X while wearing a pair of fancy glasses and then having another account say 'what glasses' for them to reply with 'Oakley meta raybans. The only glasses to give you crystal clear polarization and 4K recording. Oakley meta raybans. Get them at a store near you!'

In short, humans were already ruining the internet. It's been trash for a long time.

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u/7HawksAnd 19d ago

Tower of Babel

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u/halcyon400 19d ago

All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again. — Battlestar Galactica

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u/eumanthis 19d ago

“This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence…”

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u/BrianNowhere 18d ago

This is a 4th dimensional view. A 4d being would see you as a time-line worm and they could examine any moment in it at will. You are trapped within. Forced to loop through your life for eternity as deja vu becomes more frequent with each iteration.

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u/Kheitain 19d ago

So say we all

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u/empathyrevolution 19d ago

I always think about this!

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u/Sh0wmey0urbutth0le 19d ago

"Motherfucker" - Samuel L Jackson

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u/Low_Challenge_2827 19d ago

A short stay in hell!

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u/hoppertn 19d ago

I kinda wonder if this will re-create local hard copy news, perhaps news in a daily paper?

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u/CryptographerOld558 19d ago

Something much harder to cross reference and review with peers to validate "news"

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u/BlueFalcon89 19d ago

If the entire internet becomes trash then it will no longer be where people go.

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u/sweetpea122 19d ago

We would go back to encyclopedia but they're burning all the books

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u/lightningrod14 19d ago

it was happening before ai even kicked off is the thing

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u/Jaccount 19d ago

You say that as if the information isn’t already poisoned in one fashion or another.

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u/Ok_Vulva 19d ago

What do we do? Genuinely, download Wikipedia or something?

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u/Refugee_0000 19d ago

And we'll blame the bots. Not the people triggering them!

(/s too. Like anyone with reason would be able to tell.)

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u/turningsteel 18d ago

If they take down the internet, it's not like it'll make people dumber than they are now. I say let's roll the dice.

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u/rainier0380 18d ago

I’m excited for the world to put down its phones and connect with each other on a more organic level. I do believe the bad side of social media out weighs the good side of the internet. Then Amazon and Data centers will just be Geek fantasy Lore.