• BodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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    12 days ago

    Look into it, this story is old by the standards of the industry, so it’s been ripped apart already by domain experts.

    It was published by the BBC two weeks ago and I think that makes it still reasonably relevant to general interest users who aren’t embedded in “the industry.”

    Posting this utter garbage on this platform is fucking stupid. You’re doing the enemy’s propaganda work for them.

    I’m pretty sure we’re collectively media literate enough to identify the flaws in the story, and it seems newsworthy on the basis of your first paragraph.

    I didn’t add my own commentary here, but the reason I posted is because I think it’s interesting how much of the “AI” conversation appears to be occurring in the Land of Make-Believe. A company can essentially admit to making an open-to-the-public cyberweapon and there’s nothing more than a vague press release and a few news articles on it.

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      12 days ago

      A company can essentially admit to making an open-to-the-public cyberweapon and there’s nothing more than a vague press release and a few news articles on it.

      Citation needed. Automating metasploit shouldn’t be headline grabbing news and it sounds like you know better.

      • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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        12 days ago

        Citation needed

        You can search the story yourself; I didn’t see anything more recent than this BBC article.

        Automating metasploit shouldn’t be headline grabbing news

        Yes, the thing that seems interesting here is that it got written up. It seems self-evidently stupid as propaganda so the question is why they’re apparently running with it. You could argue the goal is regulatory capture but that would require a government to start thinking about regulating it, so until that happens it’s kind of just a weird announcement that using Claude for industrial espionage is against the TOS janet-wink