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vintermann • yesterday at 2:09 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Having Claude examine all automatic software updates was considered as a policy, and it was found that it would stop 99.5% of software supply chain attacks. However the other 0.5% of the time it would install a backdoor itself.

(This is a joke, to be clear.)


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ben_w • yesterday at 2:31 PM

> (This is a joke, to be clear.)

Good that you said so, this is annoyingly plausible.

bagacrap • yesterday at 2:14 PM

Somehow bullish if anthropic spins this as Claude's own doing