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/_Aj_ 19d ago

Hey. So.  

Don't release an API!  

human verification, no API access. Limit number of requests to like, 100 a minute? 

Basically just put limitations on it that a human perfectly fits into but messes up bots.    This seems like too simple a solution? Explain to me why we can't just make a website function like it's 2010 before we had all the nonsense.

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u/-_--__---___----____ 19d ago

Agentic models can emulate humans. You can run them locally, often with just a Mac. There are several world powers in a digital arms race, developing their own models.

It seems to simple of a solution because it is too simple to be a solution, unfortunately.

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u/Fun-Estimate4561 19d ago

I mean this also just feels like total Bs from Anthropocene trying to drive more investment

Maybe I’m just a cynic though

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u/-_--__---___----____ 19d ago

Either way, it's fundamentally changing our society and we're not doing anything to prepare for it. It could get much worse than the end of the internet.

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u/Fun-Estimate4561 19d ago

Yeah I definitely am concerned with it killing critical thinking and being poorly implemented and causing massive infrastructure failures

I still don’t seeing it replacing white collar employees because you know the economy

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u/-_--__---___----____ 19d ago

The oligarchs unfortunately don't care how you'd like the economy to look. As long as they're the ones in profit and power, they'll be happy.

That's why it's important to organize.

White collar jobs are currently the first to go. As in, it's already happening.

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u/Longjumping_Ad_424 19d ago

The infrastructure failures and hacking will be a huge problem probably one of the first things to start popping up in news cycles and affecting the general public.