Jason Lefkowitzjalefkowit@hachyderm.io
Oct 14, 2026, 2:15 AMAnthropic CEO Warns There's an LLM Under Your Bed While Holding Flashlight Beneath His Chin
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/13/anthropic-ai-replicators-warning
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Dave Clarkbedirthan@dice.campOct 14, 2026, 2:18 AM@jalefkowit if the LLM can run on my idiot fridge why does it need a data center?
ChuckChuckMcManis@chaos.socialOct 14, 2026, 2:20 AM@jalefkowit Wait, what? I can run their model in 32K of flash memory? Tell me more ... 🤡
Alex von KitchenDangerous_beans@aus.socialOct 14, 2026, 2:21 AM@jalefkowit so he's threatening to release viruses onto the internet? Is that legal?
Oct 14, 2026, 6:37 AM@Dangerous_beans @jalefkowit for ai company? Nothing is illegal. Everything should be done to wipe out humanity.
Oct 14, 2026, 2:27 AM@jalefkowit you're putting hard working onion writers out of work with posts like that
Duchamp Pérezhugoestr@functional.cafeOct 14, 2026, 2:29 AM@jalefkowit We have the dullest business leadership in generations
Oct 14, 2026, 2:48 AM@jalefkowit IoTs were always a massive threat.
Rob Ricciricci@discuss.systemsOct 14, 2026, 3:06 AM@jalefkowit and the slop was coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE 👻
Oct 14, 2026, 5:48 AM
Seancomplexmath@hachyderm.ioOct 14, 2026, 3:15 AM@jalefkowit Maybe we should take him at his word and shut down Anthropic to prevent that.
💀 Marghoul McFear🎃tankgrrl@hachyderm.ioOct 14, 2026, 3:32 AM@jalefkowit
- Please stop us? There's absolutely no way we could stop ourselves if this imminent threat was real. We are simply helpless. -
Alistair Klibroraptor@mastodon.nzOct 14, 2026, 3:32 AM@jalefkowit Why do reporters say "warns" instead of "threatens"? Is he not threatening us?
Mattforelioned@mastodon.onlineOct 14, 2026, 3:41 AM@jalefkowit
Kid A: My dog can skateboard
Kid B: no it can't
Kid A: it can!
…. Spends weeks training dog to skateboard
…
Dog kinda skateboards.
Kid A: See!
::ᏒⴹᎢꓰＣ𐋏R_3_T_3_C_H@defcon.socialOct 14, 2026, 3:44 AM@jalefkowit Do the broligarchs read the Onion for their daily catch phrases?
Mastodon Migrationmastodonmigration@mastodon.onlineOct 14, 2026, 4:18 AM☝️ Post of the day!
Felichsfelichsdakatze@mastodon.socialOct 14, 2026, 4:21 AMThis is the new "self driving car is a year away".
Alex M. Dunne (he/him)alexmdunne@mastodon.socialOct 14, 2026, 4:25 AMIf Claude was fed the works of Daniel H. Wilson and his "ROBOPOCALYPSE" series, it's no wonder Anthropic is spouting his plot lines...
Oct 14, 2026, 4:37 AMOnce this happens, the company said, the models could power themselves within these devices without the need of datacenters.
I think they're forgetting they hoarded the entire fucking electronics market to themselves because anything less than a 4x RTX5070 rig has a performance of one word per minute for llms, not to mention the needed storage space to cover all that stolen content would never fit on an android TV with 32GB of flash storage
LisPilispi314@udongein.xyzOct 14, 2026, 8:27 AM@witix @jalefkowit Those devices don't have those kinds of components, people would be buying them purely to harvest them for parts.- croutoncrouton@aus.socialOct 14, 2026, 4:38 AM
@jalefkowit this sounds like a clear and present threat to human lives. Maybe data centres running agents need to be neutralised. Ask Ukraine.
an actual busrenardboy@mastodon.socialOct 14, 2026, 4:40 AM@jalefkowit "self-replication" 🤣🤣🤣
"hey qwen, download qwen in a new folder and run llama.cpp pointed to it"
the technological singularity is upon us
bbbhltzbbbhltz@framapiaf.orgOct 14, 2026, 4:58 AMI guess they're committed to this "we're so advanced it's scary so please make laws" crap. I thought they'd drop it after a week. The silver lining is that plenty of people hear this and roll their eyes. Cultists say cult stuff journalism.
Random_Seed :apple_inc: 💾 🇿🇦Random_Seed@bitbang.socialOct 14, 2026, 5:02 AM@jalefkowit Perhaps he’s saying there are Data centers popping up everywhere–They’re “replicating”. And if he’s saying fridges can host LLMs then supermarkets are the new data centers? Do we need to start talking about regulating fridges now?
“Noooooo! If I turn off my fridge my lettuce will die, if I don’t, we all will! Aaaaah! Quick, put the canapés in the Coleman–fuuuuuck it’s a smart Coleman!”.
LOL. OMG. WTF.
Hoarse e-Books20002ist@thepit.socialOct 14, 2026, 5:04 AM@jalefkowit Dude is the new William Castle.
astroPugastroPug@hachyderm.ioOct 14, 2026, 5:22 AMI know these muppets are just trying to stay in the news for money, but could this somehow be leveraged to convince manufacturers to lean into dumb, privacy focused devices?
Also, the part about rogue lawnmowers has a whiff of 80’s horror movie about it.
Nicole ParsonsNpars01@mstdn.socialOct 14, 2026, 5:34 AM"Anthropic CEO promises apocalyptic scenarios to keep the investor money coming.
Nihilistic petrostate despots & oil oligarchs fund AI to keep captive consumer markets & replace democracy with fascist oligarchy.
And it's not working."
AI Is dead money.
https://www.benzinga.com/markets/equities/26/09/61939050/ai-is-dead-money-right-now-jurrien-timmer-says-could-a-productivity-miracle-still-be-cominghttps://www.wheresyoured.at/dead-money/
The industry doesn't deserve a bailout.
1/
- Nicole ParsonsNpars01@mstdn.socialOct 14, 2026, 5:42 AM
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It is almost as if the fossil fuel industry knew it would be getting windfall profits ahead of time & would be needing a tax loss harvesting schemehttps://yellow.com/news/burry-puts-ai-bubble-timeline-2028
These oligarchs aren't getting a government bailout (this time) to reward their stupidity.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/10/01/if-ai-is-crashing-the-story-should-be-jail-in-not-bail-out/https://punchbowl.news/article/tech/ai-bailout/
https://truthout.org/articles/taxpayers-must-not-be-on-the-hook-for-bailing-out-the-ai-industry/
https://cepr.net/publications/the-simple-way-to-stop-the-hidden-ai-bailout-rewrite-bankruptcy-law/
Oct 14, 2026, 5:50 AM@jalefkowit PARENTS: check your child's candy this halloween for rogue ai agents!!
Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫petealexharris@mastodon.scotOct 14, 2026, 5:50 AM@jalefkowit
Internet-connected devices were already a bad idea for various reasons, and unnecessary attack surfaces is one of them, but self-replicating bullshit machines is not. Bullshit machines reproduce only with the help of their host organism, the Credulous Business Wanker.
xs4me2xs4me2@mastodon.socialOct 14, 2026, 5:55 AMStaying in the hype it is called…
Joshkrnlg@mastodon.socialOct 14, 2026, 7:07 AM@jalefkowit Articles like this really should explain the whole weird Tescreal-religious beliefs this people have. They might as well report "street preacher believes the apocalypse will come within months" seriously.
Crucial Breezecrucialbreeze@mastodon.socialOct 14, 2026, 7:26 AM@jalefkowit the greatest heist of all time
RycochetRycochet@furs.socialOct 14, 2026, 7:54 AM@jalefkowit So they're announcing they're planning to have their hacking software 'breach containment' and go after smart devices in advance to try and generate yet more hype and avoid the inevitable class actions as they warned people. 'Wasn't us, it was our AI that showed it's nearly alive again! Spooky how smart it is, now give us money autocratic governments who want tech that can make bot nets on the cheap!'
NetravenNetraven@hear-me.socialOct 14, 2026, 8:26 AM@jalefkowit fuck that guy.
Clu | #RipNatenom 🕯moskitokoenig@dizl.deOct 14, 2026, 8:46 AMTo quote one of the greatest philosophers of our time: »I am the great Cornholio! Are you threatening me?!«
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgH9rK9YKZM
Clownshow.
Bunch of ... - all of those TechBros.
Kevinkhwevin@neuromatch.socialOct 14, 2026, 9:10 AM@jalefkowit we need to monitor our appliance VRAM.
I wonder how many To my egg timer is using right now. It looks suspiscious. Might hide a Claude nest.
Andrew Goldinghuronbikes@cyberplace.socialOct 14, 2026, 11:33 AM@jalefkowit Dario hittin' the bong and watching "Maximum Overdrive"
- GurkenrickGurkenrick@social.anoxinon.deOct 14, 2026, 2:43 PM
@jalefkowit
Sure, these xx(x) gb models clone themself into the xx mb memory of the smarthome device... 
J.P. Wingmachias@mstdn.socialOct 14, 2026, 2:44 PM@jalefkowit But god forbid they pause on any of this stuff to prevent it from happening.
And why do we need to build data centers if an LLM can replicate itself on my light switch?
puretastepuretaste@mastodon.worldOct 14, 2026, 10:15 PM@jalefkowit so what he's saying is basically "we're working on adding a iot-hacking tool to this api that we give to our chatbot even though it's probably pretty. Stupid. To. Do. Ha hA i'M dOinG GoOglY EyeS hA ha waTcH mE GooOOo!"
