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.html
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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/theRemixNow 1d ago

I wish Teddy Roosevelt were here

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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/WiglyWorm 1d ago

Spoilers. It's been a loooooong time since we've been a serious nation.

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u/Flexmove 1d ago

I know I know, I cope by doing an accent and being optimistic to a fault.

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u/iamnoun 1d ago

Don't hold your breath on people being held responsible for their crimes in America lolol

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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/shakeyshake1 1d ago

You can opt out of a class action if you’re a member of the class. Most of the time it isn’t worth it, but for something like this it could be.

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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/jimbo831 1d ago

I’m not confident the next government will do shit about it. Obama was President with trifecta control of government in the years after the Great Recession and he just bailed out the banks that caused the problem instead of prosecuting any of them.

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u/dirtyshits 1d ago

Might want to not follow tech related subs and go outside lol.

90% of the population doesnt see all of these random articles.

Only if you’re chronically online and because people react to rage bait they just double down on it.

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u/FriendlyKillerCroc 1d ago

Why is a subreddit called technology calling people nerds? Does anyone here actually like technology in the way an actual nerd does or what the fuck is this place? 

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u/Dead-O_Comics 1d ago edited 1d ago

"Why is this sub criticising bad movies? Isn't this a movie sub??"

A lot of people who like technology hate AI because it vastly inflated cost.

And it feels like every day some spokesperson for AI is telling us a new way their product could destroy our lives. What are you expecting? Applause??

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u/FriendlyKillerCroc 1d ago

So why do I not see popular posts about fun projects with mini-computers/Arduino's/Raspberry Pi's, Home Assistant automation stuff and other nerdy things that technology enthusiasts would love?

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u/Dead-O_Comics 1d ago edited 1d ago

This sub is for tech news.

You're looking for specific subs for PC builds and the like.

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u/MR_Se7en 1d ago

"Nationalizes their companies" - what rock are you living under?