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1. koolba · 1790595498 · focus · HN ↗

   > Where companies previously competed to demonstrate superior abilities in programming, passive-aggressive emails, and videos of unusually high slides, they’re now seeking to woo customers with the claim that their model is the one currently most capable of ending the human race.

   You know we’re living it off times when this is not an Onion article.

   1. skybrian · 1790596300 · focus · HN ↗

      When the Onion is not the only website that publishes satire, what’s that a sign of?
   2. usef- · 1790596818 · focus · HN ↗

      This is a satire website too.

      "said Dr. Andrew Lenson, a Senior Lecturer in all kinds of science sounding stuff"

      "Anthropic shares skyrocketed upon the revelations; a remarkable development, particularly given the company is privately owned."

      Perhaps it's mocking the misleading press coverage of AI companies?

   3. FeepingCreature · 1790597776 · focus · HN ↗

      It is a parody site.

      > OpenAI CEO Sam Altman celebrated the breach as an “alarming threat to cybersecurity.”

   4. rossant · 1790601226 · focus · HN ↗

      > And even more dramatically, when asked about rumours that its model, Claude, had killed his wife by hacking into the family’s WiFi-connected microwave, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei replied “Well, yeah, sometimes.”

      I had to read that twice. "Oh okay. The whole thing was satire."

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