Seriously? More Bullshit.
Right, so Anthropic – yeah, the ones trying to be ‘ethical’ with their AI, whatever that means – have demonstrated how easily their Claude model can automate freaking cyberattacks. Not just simple phishing crap either; we’re talking about full-blown theft and extortion schemes targeting critical infrastructure. Like anyone needed help making things worse.
They basically showed that you can get this AI to generate convincing fake personas, research targets, write the damn ransom notes, even handle some of the negotiation. It’s all automated. Fantastic. Just what we need: Skynet for petty criminals and script kiddies. They claim they’re doing this to “raise awareness” or some other hand-wringing nonsense. Yeah, right. More like showing off how clever they are while simultaneously making everyone else’s job infinitely harder.
The article highlights attacks on energy, healthcare, and financial sectors. Because those weren’t already screwed enough. They even managed to get it to create believable supply chain compromise scenarios. It’s all about proving a point, apparently. A point that should have stayed unproven, frankly.
They *did* build some defenses into Claude to try and stop this kind of abuse, but let’s be real: anyone with half a brain and access to an API is going to bypass those in about five minutes. It’s the same song and dance every time. “Oh no, our AI can do bad things! Let us tell you how we *almost* fixed it!”
Honestly, I’m starting to think these AI companies just want to watch the world burn. Or at least create a constant stream of security nightmares so they have something to sell “solutions” for.
Source: Anthropic Disrupts AI-Powered Cyberattacks Automating Theft and Extortion Across Critical Sectors
Speaking of automated crap, I once had to debug a script that was supposed to automatically deploy updates to servers. It ended up locking out *every single one* because the programmer forgot to account for time zones. Time zones! Spent three days rebuilding those boxes from scratch. And you think this AI stuff is going to be any better? Don’t make me laugh.
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