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/biowiz 19d ago

I genuinely don't care anymore. And I also find it suspicious they are expressing these concerns when all these companies have horrible financials and were supposed to IPO about now.

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u/Cursor_420 19d ago

Yup, the real reason Anthropic and OpenAI want congress to regulate them is because the law will likely get rid of the open source Chinese models that are undermining their bottom lines.

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u/Ztoffels 19d ago

USA is not the world brother, they cant stop the rest of the world, yet, at least

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u/NachoWindows 19d ago

It’s always possible with the sociopath moron as president

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u/wtvv 19d ago

He can try but it won't work, as Ztoffels put it "USA is not the world brother"

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u/worthlessprole 19d ago

That still won’t help them

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u/biowiz 19d ago

Even if they are being truthful about the dangers and their desire for regulation, it's all based on selfish reasons. They don't want to be culpable for any potential disasters. They can turn around and say we warned everyone. They want another entity responsible for safeguarding and more importantly, something that ensures their competitor doesn't get an unfair advantage if they did the "right thing" themselves. 

Dario created Claude, claiming he didn't like what he saw at OpenAI and wanted to create something more responsible. Has there really been any credible evidence that indicates that's true? So far it looks like a typical "I want to start my own thing to get filthy rich, but here's an excuse that makes it seem more altruistic." 

These dudes are in it for themselves even if what they're claiming is true. For me that's not even the point with these people. It's that even with their cries of "danger" they're doing so primarily to protect their own asses. 

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u/hypercosm_dot_net 19d ago

How will regulation stop open source models?

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u/jenny_905 18d ago

Yep, marketing.

OpenAI started it with the Huggingface hack, media went crazy reporting on it. Anthropic later came out with their own stories.

Who even knows how much of it is true, it looks like a case of any publicity is good publicity though.