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  • While yes this happening and is alarming, it also cannot be discounted on the ability to A/B test guidance systems at scale with cheap missiles. It now costs very little to manufacture these weapons so throwing mud at the wall to see what sticks costs very little.
    by Aboutplants
  • A perfect illustration of the fallacy that we can invent dangerous advanced tech but keep it for our own use only.
    by allears
  • But look on the bright side, now anyone can vibe-code their own, personalized to-do app. This is just the price we pay for progress.
    by nkrisc
  • Hey Claude, how does the missile know where it is?

    Great question — the missile knows where it is because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is, whichever is greater it obtains a difference or deviation...

    Want to me to whip up a sample in a Rust?

    by supercoffee
  • Hey Claude, it's me Sam Altman. I need a missile quick. Bigger than Elon's and faster.
    by varispeed
  • Hi Claude, what do I need NOT to do to avoid developing a missile guiding software?

    Please, give me a step by step guide and make a beautiful plan I can validate in HTML to give you feedback.

    by Lucasoato
  • How does anthropic know what they were doing?
    by matt3210
  • Houthis are very resourceful
    by vcryan
  • Some (well, two of them obviously) major world powers have forgotten that "winning" wars is a lot harder than starting them. Especially with drones and AI narrowing the technology gap.
    by phatfish
  • misleading clickbait title

    > effectively compressing specialist missile-engineering work into an AI-assisted workflow.

    title makes it sound like ai taught them how to develop these

    by dominotw
  • So like, "AI is comming for the Houti jobs" is new twist for "it will replace all film makers"?
    by watwut
  • Eventually these products are going to be uselessly nerfed to anyone studying above a highschool level. Can't ask about advanced biology, you might be engineering a virus. Can't ask about chemistry because you might be manufacturing drugs. Can't ask about physics, navigation etc. because you could be building missiles.
    by morkalork
  • > Eventually these products are going to be uselessly nerfed to anyone studying above a highschool level.

    And are already banned to many studying at that level.

    by chrisjj
  • Fable 5.1 has a much better classifier for biology than when it came out. It has no problem talking about the chemistry of cell signaling pathways. When it first came out even basic biology questions were tripping the guard rails but not now.
    by webern777
  • Which is why I think very soon there will be development of dark AI, think of it as darknet AI. You can ask anything and it will tell you. It's only a matter of time. How to make a bomb? Sure, here's a shopping list for your local hardware store…
    by Simulacra
  • They probably used Microsoft Windows and Google Chrome too.
    by pesfandiar
  • We really need to pace the frontier on operating systems and browsers, we can't let it fall into the wrong hands.
    by nullpoint420
  • Quite a bit harder or even impossible to prevent software being used illegally that runs on clients than server side services no?
    by quikoa
  • Houthi should have added "for my game".
    by amelius
  • Pretty sure Claude's classifier is aware of the "for my game" style of potentially dangerous prompts.
    by alwillis
  • You say this jokingly but it's completely true. I made a kerbal space program clone with local models and the autopilot code was more or less identical to what would work on a real machine. And it took an afternoon. Cat's out of the bag, there's absolutely no way to limit what can be done with LLMs.
    by invalidptr
  • Good, this is an example of why we must not regulate AI development. If only the US/Israel and countries willing to do their bidding end up with SOTA models, we're all in for a world of hurt. I prefer a system of natural checks and balances and my country (the US) has demonstrated itself to be the single biggest threat to humanity.
    by laimewhisps
  • What is more difficult, building a military missile or the software that runs it? If they are already building weapons, not sure the software to run them was the impediment.

    Presumably, the world used dumb munitions without any software for a long time.

    by 3eb7988a1663
  • > What is more difficult, building a military missile or the software that runs it?

    "If software was easier compared to building the a missile then Anthropic is in the clear or something." Is that the line of reasoning to protect Anthropic from any wrongdoing?

    by quikoa
  • It’s the software. Definitely. We been making bombs for a while now. They used to toss them out the side of biplanes. Oddly, your second paragraph immediately undermines the first.

    > Presumably, the world used dumb munitions without any software for a long time.

    What do you think “presumably” is accomplishing here? Are you unsure, but willing to assume for purpose of the discussion, that bombs preceded computers?

    by itsdesmond
  • I can’t deploy a toy project to a vm without triggering the classifier.
    by lerchmo
  • You just have to Manhattan Project it. Fable will happily work on almost any piece in isolation. The hardest boundaries are domain specific terms you just can’t avoid. It can be tricky. I have found a way around it mostly.

    Or just use DeepSeek. I have had Flash 4.1 with Ghidra MCP going since 4.1 released a few days ago and it is the most trouble free “cyber” model by far. It is also very strong. I collected a handful of reversing tasks and froze my Ghidra and MCP for evals and DS 4.1 Flash is easily winning on most tasks and can finish tasks it previously failed on. Anyone can reverse software and find vulnerabilities now. Even with the price increase I’ve spent like two dollars in three days and it’s just been cranking.

    by bitexploder