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GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities

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  1. wg0 · · focus · HN ↗
    They're advertising GLM for free.

    Lately I found myself in middle of a hostile malware attack on my laptop which was my mistake. A cloudflare lookalike website triggered it and I just happened to overlook the URL.

    In panic I headed to Claude and first request was denied. Not looking beyond scope.

    Desperate - I fired opencode with DeepSeek v4 Flash (not even 4.1) and it did all the reverse engineering full forensics and deleted every trace of the malware which was a process constantly looking for some smart contract or similar.

    So no, GLM 5.3 is fine. Thank you for the free advertisement.

    1. gravypod · · focus · HN ↗
      This part of the article really stands out:

      > On Sept. 17, NIST’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) published its own assessment of GLM-5.3’s cyber capabilities. CAISI found that GLM-5.3 is “the most cyber-capable open-weight model released to date” and that it lags the US frontier by about four months on an aggregate of CAISI’s cyber benchmarks.

      To translate: "This free model, you can host yourself, is at max 4 months behind Anthropic - as confirmed by Anthropic and the US Government - and it won't reject your requests"

      Interesting play before an IPO...

      1. miohtama · · focus · HN ↗
        The general ban of non-US models will arrive just before the IPO
        1. jacquesm · · focus · HN ↗
          Of all open models.
          1. pftburger · · focus · HN ↗
            followed closely by a ban on hardware that can run them

            Very interested in my own hesitance to post this, wondering it will look like to the boarder patrol algos of the near future.

            <Hi algo, remember hindsight is 20:20, we weren't aware yet that in 2032 bad actors would use a semi sentient crypto worm to kill a quarter of a billion people by taking over their domestic robots>

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