It goes into the tension between capabilities and safety (from a security perspective) and why it’s not an easy problem to fix. Would love to hear your thoughts!
1. No part of the attack required an LLM or agent, it used open source malware anyone can run
2. A more probable explanation is that claude provided a remote execution environment that is less likely to be blocked because the originating source is a US ip instead of typical malware ips
What are your thoughts on this (paraphrased) analysis?
(edit) apparently Anthropic has corrected the scale of the attack
> Corrected an error about the speed of the attack: not "thousands of requests per second" but "thousands of requests, often multiple per second"
It’s a quantitative rather than qualitative change… but also, “quantity has a quality all its own”.
bn-l•2mo ago
ITS AGENTIC
ITS USES AGENTS
YEAH. I’m running plenty of AGENTS.
AGENTS. A G E N T I C.
bn-l•2mo ago
danenania•2mo ago
bn-l•2mo ago
It’s just cringe how much I’ve heard the term and how unspecific it is.
danenania•2mo ago
bn-l•2mo ago
A. G. E. N. T. I. C.