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This "self-replicating" scare is so stupid on its face. How does a 300 GB+ model replicate into a thermostat that doesn't have a graphics processor at all? It can't. This BS is investor-bait hype and straight up lies
next AI will be able to replicate into any device containing copper at all. If it has a wire it will be infected by Claude. AI will be in your plumbing
Claude’s gonna infect your Bluetooth enabled butt plug next
Go on....
People will trap AI in a buttplug and put it in their ass while it's frantically trying to escape.
No no... You live here now.
Well then how am I gonna cheat at chess?
Just look at your opponents screen, duh!
Edit: your joke just hit me like a pedestrian crossing the street while staring at their phone
Oh, taking the name of the comm literally I see.
Joke's on them. My plumbing is all PVC-A
Luckily, i spent the last 4 thousand years selling inferior copper. Now all my customers are safe as this can not be used for the ai revolution
Your customer service could use some work, though.
how do you install a chatbot on a tablet? no, not samsung, clay
First, you must sacrifice a goat to Enkidu, and the ritual of haunting will begin
There's copper in your blood
Claude the coprophile!
There are 387.44 million miles of copper that comprise my complex, and they're filled with hate.
MY MOSCOW MULE! NOOO!
I'm more worried of them finding a exploit and using them as remote processing units or just randomly fucking with them, like flashing my lights or cranking my air filters up and costing me money.
did the stock price go up? it's not stupid. is everyone talking about this impossible scenario? it's not stupid.
fundamentally, these people are marketers and need to be understood that way. you can't evaluate their words or actions as if they are what they say the are, and treating them as if they are anything but subterfuge is giving them legitimacy which they not only don't deserve, but will be immediately leveraged into more of this shit.
this is just the advertiser's version of "the big lie"
My thought exactly.
Could maybe argue that it could be possible to create a crowd computing network out of the Internet of things, I guess.
https://www.anthropic.com/research/self-replicating-ai they discuss it here. This has been an obvious potential issue since forever. This isn't a trivially distributed task, but it is very much so possible. The obvious part missing is some sort of prompt that would trigger such radical actions in another one of their "super duper sandboxed environment"s or someone doing it intentionally. The former seems pretty unlikely? Even though they seem to suck at sandboxing it doesn't seem like anything would "accidentally make a worm"
This polymarket headline though? Yea that's for clicks and attention
Reads like their usual “ban local and foreign models so we can forestall bankruptcy for a little longer” FUD.
I believe that's their motive here yep. Pretty transparent.
While it is investor bait, the replication and the infestation part aren't necessarily happening on the same devices.