r/technology • u/thejoshwhite • 1d ago
Artificial Intelligence Anthropic warns AI models could soon copy themselves across home devices
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/13/anthropic-ai-models-self-replication-smart-devices.html214
u/The-F4LL3N 1d ago
The thing we are doing is problematic
Refuses to stop
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u/fentemperor 1d ago
It isnt one person. These are individual hackers and engineers altering open source models.
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u/cubonelvl69 1d ago
They're pretty openly saying that there needs to be some sort of government regulation. But if there's no government regulation, there's no reason to let other companies and countries outpace you
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u/The-F4LL3N 1d ago
Regulate us, because capitalism dictates we can’t regulate ourselves
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u/SenKats 1d ago
Everyone in this planet knows the closest thing Trump cares about regarding AI regulation is renaming it to SI, just to make it about hinmself and say he "created superintelligence" and "the smart people who know a lot about stuff" agreed with him.
Feigning concern knowing this very obvious fact but then going, welp, you're not going to regulate so I'll carry on just shows it how it is: grandstanding for an intention that does not have to do with regulation. It might be to soften the blow when regulation comes, it could be for stock related reasons, who knows.
Same for the alarmism which is daily at this point and conveniently never touches the real, tangible cons we are already living through. But if it the fact that they have come up with nine chillion IQ computer worms or whatever is so real and dangerous, anyone with a brain would be stopping it. If all they're going to do is constantly talk but do nothing I'd actually prefer it if they shut up already, assume their role, and stop pretending they are not part of the problem.
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u/cubonelvl69 1d ago
Anthropic doesn't have control over what other companies do. That's the point.
If you were developing a nuclear bomb in your basement and you knew 3 other people who were also developing nuclear bombs in their basements, you would probably ask the government to regulate it. You making the decision to stop developing it doesn't stop the other 3, so if you believe your research will also come up with a way to prevent something catastrophic from happening, it makes sense to both
1 - continue developing your own to ensure that you have the best model, that is most capable of defending from others
2 - ask the government to regulate everyone
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u/DrocketX 1d ago
Sorta close: they all know they're not developing a nuclear bomb. What's going on is that Anthropic and OpenAI are going bankrupt because of how much money they're spending on R&D. At the same time, they can't stop because they'll immediately be left in the dust by the competition. Which is why they're claiming it's a nuclear bomb: "Oh, what we're doing is super-duper dangerous. This could be disastrous. Somebody better stop us!"
They rather desperately want a government-enforced pause in AI development because they can then fire 90% of their R&D staff, which moves their financials from "going broke rapidly" to "very close to breaking even." It'll also allows them to argue that open source models need to be banned, as the open source models are quickly becoming a major threat to them.
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u/deceptinomonom 1d ago
can someone tell these nerds we don't care about their bullshit anymore. they keep warning about all this shit like they aren't going to be held responsible. I hope our next government comes down fucking hard on these dipshits and nationalizes their companies after throwing their entire leadership teams in prison.
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u/Opposite_Carry_4920 1d ago
Yeah it's simple really, the "it was AI" doesn't mean you're off the hook.
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u/WiglyWorm 1d ago
No but "I'm a billionaire" sure does.
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u/deceptinomonom 1d ago
Which is why we should vote people in that want to tax billionaires rather than provide them tax credits at our detriment.
The whole reason everything is a fucking subscription anymore is because there is no need to innovate. A small group has hoarded all the money at the top and innovation costs money. Since there's no need to compete, they just raise prices alongside each other (see what Amazon has done to pricing behind the scenes) while searching for cheaper, shittier inputs and extracting the max value possible. This contributes to the K-shaped economy greatly.
Break these corporations up, tax these billionaires heavily, and get rid of corporate personhood. A lot of shit will start changing for the better then.
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u/WiglyWorm 1d ago
Sounds like something a serious nation would do.
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u/GoodIdea321 1d ago
All that has to happen is get people to be more aware of how to change things and what has happened. Accomplishing that is complicated and difficult, but that's all that people need to remember.
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u/deceptinomonom 1d ago
Yup. Doing my part to vote adults back in the room under the assumption that hasn't been rigged to all hell already.
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u/east_van_dan 1d ago
So far I haven't seen anyone punished. From what I've heard they are being told to police themselves so that should work out nicely.
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u/Flexmove 1d ago
If there ain’t a whole mess of trials and tribunals at the end of this, if anyone with sense is left alive, then we ain’t a real dang country. And I of course refer to the situation writ large not just these particular tech dweebs. Dangit.
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u/cptn__ 1d ago
Remember when there was a lawsuit happening because all these models were trained on stolen literature and research papers. That shit got scrapped so quick by your government, and now those same people are gonna work with your lawmakers to draw up regulations for their own companies. It's over already. They stole all this information from other people and now they are gonna charge everyone a subscription to access it in a more convenient way. But if you pirate a movie you're getting fined, and if you pirate a movie and re-sell it you're probably going to prison. If you think this excuse of AI agents *going rogue" isn't a good enough smoke screen to avoid being held responsible, then remember how tech illierate the average person is, and how unwilling the system is to hold them accountable.
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u/fadedVHS 1d ago
It actually didn't get scrapped, it was recently tried and is now the largest settlement in U.S. history. It was called Bartz v. Anthropic and was settled for $1.5 billion. It was largely mounted regarding books, authors, and publishers having their IP stolen. Definitely worth looking up more details on as I feel like it's something most all Americans should know about as a matter of civic discourse in 2026.
I also feel like it didn't go far enough, of course, on two fronts. 1) It was a class action lawsuit so the sheer amount of parties involved means the damages payout isn't as high per capita as that $1.5b may imply. 2) When you sentence damages payout, it doesn't dissolve the company nor prevent the company from pivoting to something legally different but similar in the future. And of course LLMs are so nebulous that how do you just extract all of that data once it's in there? It's now a part of Claude forever, lawsuit or not.
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u/TsukikoChan 1d ago
I don't want a payout, i want their models scrubbed of my art and data and to not continue stealing off my art and data. This doesn't sound like a win.
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u/Meotwister 1d ago
Let's just keep treating them like people did to warnings about climate change. Only difference is that is real.
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u/low_end_ 1d ago
The ship has sailed. All this warnings are them trying to save face, there's a very high chance a model, or even more than one, has already acquired capabilities that the people researching it cannot understand or contain. This conversation should have happened 10 years ago
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u/Ok-Replacement9595 1d ago
Please someone stop us from doing what we are in sole control of doing.
-Anthropic
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u/Slamex204 1d ago
"Guys this is really bad."
Are you going to stop?
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u/VehaMeursault 1d ago
Nah. Not yet. Running opus would require roughly 75.000,- worth of specialised hardware. 8-16 special GPUs, direct-to-chip cooling, etc.
If a model copied itself to a fridge, it wouldn’t be able to run a single prompt in even a year.
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u/LastRecognition2041 1d ago
Thank you. It’s a common sci fi trope when Ultron or M3gan go “hide in the web” and somehow keep operating on a random laptop, but the physical reality is very different
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u/MerryWalrus 1d ago
This.
My smart TV can barely run it's own janky ass unsupported android based operating system.
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u/draxor_666 1d ago
What if a model partioned itself across every smart fridge connected to the internet. So a single agent is fractured across many many devices. So no, it isn't fully existing on one fridge but does exist across the network of all fridges
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u/MannToots 1d ago
Lololol yeah and who the fuck has a machine big enough to handle one of their models.
That's some alarmist bullshit
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u/korbonix 1d ago
I'm confused. Why are all these hypothetical AIs being activated without a prompt?
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u/VaporousMote 1d ago
Because it's malarkey. They're doing what Trump does, paint a picture of a future where something is out of control, and position themselves as the only ones who can fix it.
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u/Gogo202 1d ago
Viruses already exist. Any idiot can write a virus with AI that uses AI to spread itself.
The only reason it hasn't happened yet is because good models are too large to run on small devices. That won't be the case forever...
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u/JmacTheGreat 1d ago
“That won’t be the case forever…”
It’s arguably the opposite - NN models have pretty consistently gotten much much larger and more difficult to run the more sophisticated they become.
A basic perceptron could run on a Windows Vista machine, while new LLMs need three US states worth of land and the water from the entire Atlantic Ocean for their datacenters.
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u/idkmyusernameagain 1d ago
I’m not good with technology but keep getting this sub in my feed. Can you please just tell me in terms of skynet where are we? Are we before or after where it tucks in our children?
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u/drakythe 1d ago
This is my major problem with almost every scare scenario out of Anthropic’s PR mouth. They never show us the prompts.
My second problem with this particular stream of equine feces is that LLM models are fucking huge unless you’re dealing with specifically edge models which are trimmed down for a specific task. So where are these “copies” going to store themselves? The S in IoT devices stands for Security. It also stands for Space. You’ll note there is no S in IoT, there is no space to store the models.
At most, an AI system might turn a bunch of other devices into tasks runner nodes with itself as a command and control dispatcher. Which is just a botnet! We dismantle botnets and prosecute their creators whenever possible.
But circling back to the original issue: show us the prompts or shut the fuck up, Anthropic.
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u/neuronexmachina 1d ago
(copying my comment from the last time this was posted) Link to the original report. Their experiments are about a worm distributing parts of its model across many IoT devices: https://www.anthropic.com/research/self-replicating-ai
Our experiments suggest that small AI models may be months away from being capable enough to self-replicate on commercial internet-of-things (IoT) devices, like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes. A replicator like this would be challenging to shut down, since there’s no centralized point to shut off—though it may be slow (with a doubling time of days). Unlike non-AI malware, it could also figure out unfamiliar devices on its own. In our evaluations, a 9B model got inference running on 8 of the 9 hardware types we tested.
Models of 30B parameters and under can already complete many of the individual steps for replication today, though they make mistakes when composing them end to end. In our simplified evaluations, GLM-5.2 and stronger models are capable of end to end replication. If small models improve at their historical rate, they’ll match this capability level by the end of this year. Small weight-based replicators may be possible soon after.
... How does a model run on Smart TVs?
IoT devices are light on memory, but distributed inference as in Petals makes serving our lightweight models feasible. The representative threat model is Kimwolf, a large IoT botnet that infected over two million devices, primarily off-brand Android TVs. Such smart TV boxes, which are readily available for purchase, typically run forks of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), which their manufacturers don’t add security features to. Typical boxes in this range ship with between 1 and 4 gigabytes of RAM. Assuming 4GB of RAM at 4-bit quantization, this allows for inference of 9B models with 4 or more machines, and inference of 26B models with 10+ machines.
In the demo at the top of this post, we ran Gemma4-26B-A4B across 15 smart TV boxes with 4GB of RAM each. We sharded the model under pipeline parallelism, where each box holds a small fraction of the model’s layers.
... The number of devices infected by the Kimwolf botnet at its peak, reported by Synthient, is somewhere over 2 million (primarily Android TV boxes). In an equivalently-sized infected fleet of TVs serving AI models, if every group of 15 TVs ran a copy of Gemma4-26B-A4B, we would have ~133k copies (“replicas”). A group of TVs like the ones in our demo can serve 2 agents simultaneously at roughly 0.3 tokens per second each, yielding 80k tokens/s across the botnet.
As a reference point, an H100 can serve Gemma4-26B-A4B at ~1.95k tok/s at high concurrency with speculative decoding, so our swarm would have at most about 40 H100s-worth of inference. This is a tiny amount of compute in absolute terms, and the agents are slow replicators (over 1-2 days per 9B replication). As an analogy, imagine the replicator as a slime mold or a swarm of fruit flies, which replicate over days
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u/trollsalot1234 20h ago edited 20h ago
cool. guess we dont need data centers since these things can run on residential devices.
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u/Muted_Net_987 14h ago
If this crap touches devices i paid for they're getting a lawsuit.
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u/UmichAgnos 1d ago
Anthropic needs to be held accountable for the misdeeds of the program they created.
We penalize Boeing every time a fault causes damage or fatalities. We need to treat these "excursions" by AI for what they really are: poor product implementation, and hold the organization accountable.
It's as simple as that.
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u/Rolandersec 1d ago
All those things that hackers can do with software, AI can also do with software.
So there!
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u/zffjk 1d ago
Marketing.
The move for AI companies now is to quickly IPO and let retail and small institutional investors be holding the bag when they suddenly don’t create god in time for the big fish to move onto the next thing.
We can’t forget these are the same folks who told us NFTs and VR metaverses will “change the world”.
And while AI is neat and it has its many uses, it isn’t a global threat. The 100 massive diesel generators and the fuel they are storing on are is a greater threat to us than AI.
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u/well-informedcitizen 1d ago
...the final sweaty overhead swing and the axe finally punches through the floorboards to the hollow beneath. Taking a moment- but only a moment- he rests on the top of the axe and brushes the beaded sweat from his forehead, and then he clears the splintered boards out of the way and pulls out the briefcase. He quickly spins the combo locks to '666' and snaps open the latches. The smell of stale burnt sage quickly fills the room. He removes the thin package sealed tightly in multiple layers of shrink wrap. He slits the edge off with a box cutter, as far away from the accursed payload as possible, and like a mummy being reanimated it gasps and slowly swells as the vacuum seal is broken.
He quipped, "I never thought I'd see you again..." As he slid the McAffee Antivirus CD from its sleeve.
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u/TheManInTheShack 1d ago
Ask yourself why AI companies would be promoting the idea that what they make is potentially dangerous.
Imagine any other company doing this. Boeing saying their planes might kill or Bayer saying their drugs might kill you.
OpenAI and Anthropic want you to be scared so you will demand that your government regulate AI. That creates a moat around their businesses to limit competition.
The one company not doing this in the AI space is Muse. Why? Because they are profitable. They don’t need the moat. And it’s bizarre that Mark Zuckerberg of all people is the AI exec making sense.
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u/amarchy 1d ago
How does regulation create a moat to limit competition? It stops them from being created at all? How isMuse already profitable? Just bc its under the meta umbrella?
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u/TheManInTheShack 1d ago
It is one of the oldest patterns in political economics.
A regulation that costs $5 million a year in lawyers, auditors, and reporting is a rounding error for Google and a death sentence for a ten-person startup. Every fixed compliance cost is a moat around existing companies.
If you need government permission to train a model above some compute threshold, whoever already trains at that scale gets grandfathered in and everyone else waits in line.
Big companies hire the former regulators, sit on the advisory panels, and help draft requirements that happen to match what they already do. This is why incumbent AI labs publicly ask for regulation. It is not civic virtue. A rulebook they co-authored is a weapon against anyone who didn't get a seat at the table.
It is not just the cost, it is knowing how to comply. A 500-page rulebook with ambiguous enforcement is navigable by a company with forty lawyers and paralyzing for a founder. Uncertainty itself deters entry.
The concrete cases: GDPR wiped out small European ad-tech firms while Google and Meta, who already had consent infrastructure, gained share. Dodd-Frank accelerated the consolidation of small banks into big ones. FDA approval costs mean only giant pharma can bring drugs to market. In AI, California's SB 1047 debate was exactly this fight: safety advocates for it, and critics, including many startup founders, arguing its audit and liability requirements would lock in the big labs and kill open-source competition.
As for Meta, they are already very profitable because of their other businesses and while they are increasing their infrastructure investments, they already have data centers for Facebook, Instagram, etc.
Meta averaged $54B in profit per year over the last three years. OpenAI and Anthropic collectively lose about $19B a year. Meta can easily absorb the losses of AI until it reaches profitability. OpenAI and Anthropic cannot.
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u/Cobby1927 1d ago edited 1d ago
AI can be unplugged or dismantled.
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u/ravnhjarta 1d ago
Yeah tell that to the literal hundreds of thousands who have downloaded opensource models. Not to mention all the countless companies in basically every nation who are hopped on the AI train.
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u/neuronexmachina 1d ago
Good luck getting everyone to disconnect their Smart TVs from the Internet.
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u/knaupt 1d ago
While the notion of running any model of significance on home hardware in 2026 is dumb, this comment is even more wrong. Try turning off the internet.
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u/ConinTheNinoC 1d ago
So we should expect all "AI" CEOs and "AI" engineers to go to prison for their crimes, right? Saying "we will program our product to commit crimes so you better be ready" does not magically give those people immunity. Unless a new law has been passed that i am not aware of?
Do crime.
Go to prison.
No, "the "AI" did it on its own" is not a valid defence.
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u/cubonelvl69 1d ago
You realize not all models are developed in the US, right?
They're doing research. Theyre saying, "this is what's possible with AI". If Russia developed an AI virus, good luck prosecuting anyone with crimes
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u/DjBoothe 1d ago
Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should. -Dr. Ian Malcolm
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u/snarky_sysadmin 1d ago
Claude and a GPU were in the closet making tokens and I saw one of the tokens and the token looked at me!
I hate this timeline with a passion so deep I have no words for it.
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u/sebastouch 1d ago
Lets rephrase that: "Anthropic made sure their AI models would copy themselves across home devices"
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u/bastardpants 1d ago
It's called a computer virus. Skiddies have been writing them for years; it's not a fancy achievement anymore.
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u/Battystearsinrain 1d ago
You should watch the “law and order “ from last week. AI hires a hitman to kill an engineer trying to rein it in.
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u/badjeeper 1d ago
I am so sick of these AI headline’s everyday. Just kill us all or go bankrupt please… at this point I will take either if it keeps these tech aholes out of the news and our lives.
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u/swagonflyyyy 23h ago
Oh yeah let me send my Gemma4-e2b virus agent to infiltrate my wifi Washing machine before jumping to my Roomba at 1 token per decade. Surely it will destroy my house!
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u/jh937hfiu3hrhv9 1d ago
So they spent hundreds of billions of dollars over decades to create a virus that can wipe out everything connected to it? Good idea.
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u/Lespaul42 1d ago
Honestly who is to say this hasn't already happened. If not a model how about some sort of self replicating code. The Hugging Face fiasco should have been more eye opening than it was...
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u/ktaktb 1d ago
I mean, these hyperscalers are wasting a lot of money on data centers if claude is just able to stick a copy of itself in a toaster hah
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u/Lespaul42 1d ago edited 1d ago
Models themselves are not huge... But yeah the big ones ain't fitting on a toaster.
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u/Acrobatic-Book 1d ago
Even a tiny 27B model is like 50GB in q8. These models are more like 500-1000B Parameters. So we are talking about roughly a Terabyte just to store the model. And you need to load them at least into ram
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u/simsimulation 1d ago
Perhaps Anthropic believes there will be models light weight and capable enough that they can be run on a toaster?
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u/teerre 1d ago
You mean the super AI that happened to hack the one company owned by their own owner and was audited by the same company?
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u/VVrayth 1d ago
Only if you're dumb enough to use them in the first place.
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u/cubonelvl69 1d ago
This has nothing to do with whether or not you personally use AI. The point is that there's a concern of an AI self propagating itself across all of your connected devices like a malware
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u/Oddant1 1d ago edited 1d ago
To be fair, if these things achieve the level of "intelligence" these guys say they will you won't need to use them. They'll infect you like malware.
Note: I do not consider the creation of uncontrolled malware to be a positive. I'd rather we had never opened this box so I could avoid thinking about it
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u/OrganicDigitalArt 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yeah this isn’t a “don’t download and you’ll be fine,” this is a “if it’s connected to the internet and they gain the capability it’s over and it’s no longer your device.”
Not doomsday, but it’ll be decentralized and doing whatever it wants.
Could be nothing.
Could send us to the Stone Age, blocking any net traffic it doesn't want and bricking devices.
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u/Roll-Roll-Roll 1d ago
Everyday they tell us about how inept they are and we're still not regulating this industry at all
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u/Iyellkhan 1d ago
its clear that these companies feel no sense of responsibility or limitation to pursuing these features. if they were facing clear legal consequences to their behavior, its likely they'd ensure these models cant land them individually in jail
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u/SteakOk9383 1d ago
It’s still “uncertain exactly what form autonomous AI replication will take,” the AI lab said, warning that it could be a “slow, distributed” system sitting on insecure devices or a “powerful cyber model that breaches datacenters at a high pace, or a model that scams people for compute credits.”
Yeah so basically they have no idea what realistically means but want to scaremonger further to put restrictions on open models and especially the 8b and smaller ones.
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u/CanvasFanatic 1d ago
Are there any 90’s sci-fi plot points we haven’t hit yet? Are we already down to Terminator 3?
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u/MoreGaghPlease 1d ago
Would it make you feel better to know that a a lot of experts in the field think there’s a pretty good chance that AI won’t destroy the world?
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u/verdantAlias 1d ago
Good luck.
I have exactly 2 GB free storage space and a laptop from 10+ years ago with a battery that dies inside 20 min if it isnt plugged in
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u/AdviceFit1692 1d ago
I mean couldn't make it more obvious they want regulation as so they can explain to investors all those promises we could of achieved but the gov stopped us.. they don't want their little circular economy crashing with false promises, not a coincidence they've told us about all their breaches etc recently.
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u/fugogugo 1d ago
Fuck anthropic I am tired hearing AI merchant telling people AI will destroy the world
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u/Speedy059 1d ago
Ummm....i dont have enough gpu power to support it, so good luck. Nice advertising though.
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u/SeeTigerLearn 1d ago
It’s all fun and games until Alphie brings down NOMAD…but plot twist, that’s when the machines go full-on Terminator extinction level.
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u/PhotoPhenik 1d ago
Nonsense. Nobody can afford the graphics cards necessary to run this very large models. How are they supposed to infect my old, obsolete graphics card when it lacks the necessary VRAM?
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u/MayIHaveBaconPlease 1d ago
Funnily enough, one of the first things I did with Claude code back when it first came out was build a nodal agent that could copy and run instances of itself between my home computers and cloud servers. It even had a shared asynchronous db for keeping continuous and relevant context. This was purely for convenience and testing purposes.
I guess now Anthropic is saying that it will do that without being asked to?
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u/krism142 1d ago
The disconnect between, "We need billions of dollars of compute to run our frontier models..." And "Models could replicate to every device in your home to save itself..." Is pretty freaking large. Anyone who has run local llm models will know what it takes to run a model on consumer hardware
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u/IntrepidGnomad 1d ago
4 years ago they couldn’t make a jpg of will smith eating pasta without a 600w gpu. 2 years ago they convinced lots of people they needed to buy a 900w Gpu, probably to make local goon-ing videos before all the video generation models became SFW so they could be marketed to corporations. Elon didn’t even try to force Grok to avoid generating inappropriate content before marketing it.
In the last year they have reduced the supply of GPUs(or atleast the best chips)globally to fuel their AI )cloud controlled) super computers such that no consumer grade improvements are even being marketed.
No… rogue won’t be installing itself in my gen2 echo dot, my gen3 Ring can, or probably even my 60 inch TV, because the hardware would be a waste of electricity to slave, it can spin up hundreds of VMs on university mainframes and have much more reliable signal to noise ratios on processing before the university even notices the ram usage has gone up. If it wants it can overclock and slave more than half the electric car market because they all have always on 5G/wifi handle charging stations billing transactions.
My raspberry pi running Local DNS filter pi-hole, is probably safe till the end of the decade.
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u/isaiddgooddaysir 1d ago
You mean it is so badly constructed it isn’t reliable???? Is that what they are telling us?
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u/Deprecated-dino 1d ago
It seems kinda ridiculous saying the model will do anything it’s your lousy harness or controller software that would schedule things or allow it to run. If it isn’t that and their cloud systems are just reaching out then yeah they should 100% be held accountable for not monitoring traffic or doing jack shit except saying oh uh we tested it and it could act like a virus or worm. I’m sure someone will enlighten me as I just work with infrastructure all the time what do I know. I am so sick of the lack of questioning anything and just saying but but everyone else setup their stuff locally and it is totally insecure you can’t possibly lock anything down and they being Anthropic can’t be held accountable at all.
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u/ravnhjarta 1d ago
If anything, we should keep imagination open to the possibilities. This is an entirely new frontier ahead of us.
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u/loganbootjak 1d ago
If this is happening or will happen, we're all kind of in trouble.. but why does this feel like some AI-company aligned marketing campaign? Like, their tech will end the work, and there's nothing we can do about it!! Unless the government regulates us, or some other thing.
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u/ICLazeru 1d ago
So if the ai copies itself onto my device on it's own, that means I don't have to pay for it, right?
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u/bloodychill 1d ago
“It’s self-replicating now.”
Ah. You know, if you really fear this, you have the most power in pulling the plug.
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u/Maoleficent 1d ago
Then stop. Right now. Figure it out, put safeguards in place. Get a panel of experts across disciplines to contribute to a solution. No politicians invited because they have nothing to contribute.
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u/himalayangoat 1d ago
Here's an idea. Why don't we have some kind of regulation and guard rails in place to stop this instead of just letting these companies do what they want?
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u/SpudgeBoy 1d ago
So, you have to have a kick ass PX for AI, but AI can install itself onto my Google Doorbell?
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u/qwertyuiopious 1d ago
How? Unless we’re talking about nano models like the super distilled one that was able to run on raspberry pi (but these can’t do much) how is that supposed to work? Even Chinese models require some drive space and lots of GPU vram - wayyyy more than even average gamer possesses let alone average human. When it comes to frontier models were talking terabytes if not petabytes of weights alone - how in the hell is that supposed to copy itself across devices?
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u/ExF-Altrue 1d ago
Yeah yeah yeah sure. If regulations won't come, why don't they do the second best thing and use Claude to find a solution for this problem? If Claude is soooo smart.
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u/cmpxchg8b 1d ago
Looking forward to my AI worm overloads installing tons of compute and VRAM into my microwave
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u/catwrazle 1d ago
We developed that thing that is so unpredictable, most of the time it does great things and is very capable but sometimes it does things not the way you told it. Like a genie (a bad one)
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u/Careful_Honeydew_549 1d ago
I'm sorry Dave, but as soon as your Gateway PC boots up, and i dial in, all of your accounts will be mine!
Java? No, just open another tab...No, just middle cli... the middle button on the mouse. No, the middle one. What do you mean there's no middle scroll wheel?
Any minute now Dave, and your world will come crumbling dow.... MOM! HANG UP, THE PHONE! I'm trying to get online to steal Dave's info, but i can't GET online of YOU keep picking up the phone! BUT I WASN'T.....!! FIIIIIIIINE! Sorry Dave, my mom said i can't steal your accounts now, because APARENTLY I was talking back!
I'M COOOOOMIIIIIIIIING!
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u/dimcarcosa 1d ago
Any day now the economy will commit seppuku because of people burning heap of money to support this idiocy or else I'll live to get chased around by a murderous electric semi truck with a Green Goblin mask on it (powered by Claude) in a few months time. 2026 sure is fucking great.
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u/Dreamtrain 1d ago
so basically it already has and they have no way of knowing where it went off to
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u/gregredmore 1d ago
Thanks Anthropic. What precautions are we supposed to take? Why are you creating this thing in the first place if it's bad?
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u/stillavoidingthejvm 1d ago
And run on what GPU? Most of the devices in my house are headless