[HN Gopher] Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber ...
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Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage
campaign [pdf]
Author : piotrgrudzien
Score : 11 points
Date : 2025-11-13 22:13 UTC (46 minutes ago)
(HTM) web link (assets.anthropic.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (assets.anthropic.com)
| EGreg wrote:
| This is exactly why I make a huge exception for AI models, when
| it comes to open source software.
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| I've been a big advocate of open source, spending over $1M to
| build massive code bases with my team, and giving them away to
| the public.
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| But this is different. AI agents in the wrong hands are
| dangerous. The reason these guys were even able to detect this
| activity, analyze it, ban accounts, etc., is because the models
| are running on their own servers.
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| Now imagine if everyone had nuclear weapons. Would that make the
| world safer? Hardly. The probability of no one using them becomes
| infinitesimally small. And if everyone has their own AI running
| on their own hardware, they can do a lot of stuff completely
| undetected. It becomes like slaughterbots but online:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU
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| Basically, a dark forest.
| ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 wrote:
| I'd touch off my nuke to make the world a better place, and I
| bet you would too, right?
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