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Anthropic was having FOMO with OpenAI getting all the attention so they let Claude out to play
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/30/anthropic-ai-claude-hack
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All these “it escaped the lab” stories are just starting to sound like advertising now. “Ohh our AI is soooooooo good that it can figure out how to escape a lab and break in to a competitor. You should use it because it’s sooooo good!”
☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆I mean that’s exactly what it is, there’s even a term for it now: scaremarketing.
Honestly at this point I’m like ‘rip the bandaid off’. Let AI fully take the reigns. Unfettered access to every resource. No limit on its training. Then let it govern everything we do. Let’s see what happens. Let’s roll the dice. Either humanity ends or everything is solved.
I wouldn’t trust unreviewed LLM output to be executed on my laptop, what you’re proposing would definitely end the human civilization. See also: all the funny times when someone piped OpenClaw into a prod environment root shell and it wipes the drive within a couple days. LLMs can’t think, they are not smart, they are just a very advanced autocomplete. A useful tool for many situations, but its output needs careful human verification.
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What’s idiotic is that OpenAI broke the law, got caught, and was successful enough in turning it into a marketing stunt (aimed at investors) that other companies want to do it too.
With this precedent, all you need to do in order to get away with hacking is to change your user agent to something an AI agent uses. /s
This is why we need personal accountability by C-suites in regards to company misgivings. Yes companies are legally entities but we need like, 50% of the accountability is shared by the C-suites either as a group, or if they have it in writing for a specific thing, by a specific one, the CEO or CTO or whatever.
A person. So there’s a very real example of the personal risk to freedom or wealth (the second will hit investors more I presume) if you do this.
Plus I have a feeling that the moment it’s their ass on the line, these C-fuckers will, surprisingly, agree to do this shit less often.
I really like this idea, but how much money do you have?
Is it less than them?
If so, get fucked
Nah. With rules like this, no one could ever do anything. I mean the pizza shop on the corner couldn’t operate. Who would risk their home (if they’re lucky enough to have one) just to not make any money running a restaurant?
Directors et cetera can be held accountable for criminal negligence with the current rules, it’s just that they rarely are, because we have a “captured state” - a government and judicial arm that’s terrified of upsetting the corporations that get them elected.
The solution IMO is disallowing corporate campaign donations, and capping personal donations. Also harsher penalties for the corporations themselves, rather than just “cost of doing business” penalties.
funny thing is about this comment is something like 50% of resturaunts go bust within the first couple years, yet new people keep opening them.
I thought I kind of implied that?
There’s risk in any business. Being smart and working hard isn’t enough. Sometimes you just at get unlucky.
I know fediverse users hate corporations, and there’s a lot to hate, but the idea of individuals protecting themselves from those risks is a critical element of a modern economy.
How do you realistically prevent corporate donors from being a thing when the whole government is compromised and they won’t legislate their privileges and bribes away?
The same way you introduce a law penalising the c-suite: you pretty much can’t.
As I mentioned in my comment, the US has a “captured state” meaning that governments don’t represent the interests of people, they represent the interests of corporations and capital.
That might change temporarily in a time of upheaval - like a revolution level event. Until then, you’re cooked.
It’s funny, that pizza shop on the corner doesn’t benefit from liability protections. It is their ass on the line, which is why people running personally-owned places tend to actually worry about accountability.
And why, yes, you can easily lose your home and shit if your all-in restaurant place goes tits up. Maybe we need more liability protections for those without enough money, in turn we need less or none who’d have the money to pay for the damages they cause to others livelihood?
Sorry, with the greatest respect, this is incorrect.
Here in Australia you can register a company by paying the regulator fees of about $600 AUD (about half a weeks average wage). Thereafter you can start selling pizzas anjoying the limited liability of your corporate structure.
There are of course exceptions and caveats, notably your landlord will almost certainly ask for a personal guarantee - so you have to pay the lease even if the company goes tits up, but that’s mitigated by your ability to assign the lease to another tenant if you wish.
You might be thinking of publicly listed companies which are listed on the stock exchange. Those are subject to a much higher level of scrutiny and rigorous regulation which is indeed out of reach of “mum and dad” businesses, but that’s not a requirement for limited liability.
Of course, plenty of people don’t bother talking to a CPA before starting a business, or a company may be inadvisable for whatever reason, and they end up trading without a corporate trading structure, and have no limited liability.
But limited liability allows risk taking to occur.
The liability that is limited is that of the directors. The C-suite are fair game.
Well today I learn. I was under the impression that c-suite are protected but licensed professionals get liability.
see you’re misinterpreting the reason they got away with it though… it looks like this whole oopsie doopsie my widdwe AI did a crimes sowwie but it’s actually just… and you’ll never guess it… ready for it? the law doesn’t apply to the rich…
Tax em and their wealth. That’ll hurt em.
U first 👉👈👀
Me first what?
To tax em
Stay away troll 🧌
Broke the law? I am not sure about that. Huggingface obviously can claim damages and sue OpenAI for it. But they also profit from the free ads. And Sam Altman gave them some nice gifts afterwards, I am pretty sure.
It’s still a felony even if you say sorry.
Reminder that this in the past this kind of thing has lead to such legal persecution that both Jonathan James aged 24, and Aaron Swartz aged 26, both committed suicide because of it.
Aaron Swartz’ crime? Downloading scholarly articles from JSTOR to distribute to the public.
Now we have multi-billion dollar corporations doing these things, but several times worse, and they’re bribing politicians and running countries!
it’s class war all the way down.
Can’t use a computer for recreation would prob = suicide for me too
lol…
LOOK LOOK OURS CAN DO IT TOO.
Eye roll 🙄
I can’t tell what’s more redundant, the text, the emoji, or the comment altogether.
Smile face 🙂
Now this I can get behind
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the article
Cannot argue that, carry on o7
A lil Skynet treat couldn’t hurt anyone…
More and more lies. They must be getting desperate. Can’t wait for them to crash and burn.
I mean, it IS humorous, but it also is exactly what happened.