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'

[u/Just-Grocery-2229]

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

[u/eat_my_ass_n_balls]

The internet of the late 90s and early 2000s was a magical place. It’ll never be recreated.

Hope, novelty, excitement, earnest collaboration and open communication, hobbies, games, music, interests. No social media. No corporate enshittification. No subscription models or licensing fees.

People who didn’t experience that have NO way of understanding what it was like and what we lost.

[u/Joessandwich → u/eat_my_ass_n_balls]

There really was much more earnestness too. People would make the effort to create a website, which wasn’t a super simple task back in the day, about their specific interest. And people then had to find it and actually make an effort to come back. So people were way more participatory. Now it’s just scrolling slop feeds and reacting to what we get fed.

I also miss early Reddit. Before it became well known it also had a much more earnest feel to it with a community full of our stupid inside jokes as well as Secret Santas and teacher supply drives. Now it’s become a mess of content farming and a tool for marketing.

[u/13-year-account → u/eat_my_ass_n_balls]

Well said, eat_my_ass_n_balls

[u/No_Category_9888 → u/eat_my_ass_n_balls]

Astalavista, newsgroups, warez, mp3s ….. the good old days