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/Jaccount 19d ago edited 19d ago

Are you thinking they've hit a wall they can't fix, that things can only be done with obscene amounts of compute, and they're lighting money on fire by selling $200 subscriptions that people are burning through $20,000 worth of compute on, so what they're really doing is saying that "we need to slow down and approach this methodically" while telling sci-fi horror stories to buy themselves time? And drastically reprice their service?

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u/matt-ice 19d ago

One thing that would make sense is if they wanted time to re architecture what is undoubtedly a shit show of collecting data, processing it and serving the results. If one of the assholes came out and admitted that they grew too fast and adapted to scale without a plan (which would be a completely reasonable thing to say), I'd give them some credit. But nah, it's either blowjobs for everyone or death. I also wouldn't count on any customer facing savings even if they reduced their operational costs by 90%