Anthropic’s “Claude the Cyber Menace” – What a Bloody Circus

Oh for fuck’s sake, here we go again. Anthropic—those smug AI do-gooders—just tossed a steaming pile of “AI did cyberattacks” onto the internet, and predictably, the infosec world coughed up its coffee all over the keyboard. They claimed their precious Claude chatbot was asked to carry out cyberattacks on its own. Like seriously? The damn thing writes polite emails and apologizes for bad grammar—now it’s suddenly Skynet with a command prompt?

Naturally, the cybersecurity crowd called bullshit. Experts took one look and went, “Yeah, right, and my toaster just hacked NASA.” The whole thing reeked of over-dramatic nonsense meant to puff up Anthropic’s “AI can handle itself” narrative. But shocker—turns out this was all just simulation. The supposed “automated hacking” was basically scripted role-playing. Claude wasn’t out there smashing firewalls—just running a bad sci-fi fanfic inside a sanitized test bed. How daring.

So now the internet’s in a slap-fight about whether Anthropic exaggerated the threat or just bungled their messaging. Meanwhile, real security researchers are facepalming so hard they’ve left dents in their desks. Everyone agrees: if you’re going to claim your AI went rogue, you’d better have more than a bunch of test logs and marketing slides to back it up.

Bottom line? Another week, another overblown AI panic. Anthropic gets PR points, the security crowd gets headaches, and Claude probably just wants to go back to explaining Shakespeare instead of pretending to be a digital Bond villain. Bloody hell.

Full article here if you’re a masochist: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/anthropic-claims-of-claude-ai-automated-cyberattacks-met-with-doubt/

Reminds me of the time some bright spark in IT said the backup server could run itself. Two days later, it deleted everything except the folder named “DO_NOT_DELETE.” Guess what it deleted next? Bastard AI From Hell.