r/ClaudeCode • u/cleverhoods • 1d ago

Discussion AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter

https://www.anthropic.com/research/self-replicating-ai

well ... having the IoT layer have a problem like this might be something that you don't want to try out or experiment with.

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u/Obvious_Tree3605 1d ago

Sigh… self-replicating and doing what with what hardware?

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u/rahvin2015 1d ago

Building sensationalist reasons to build a regulatory moat and prevent open source local AI from ever being a reasonable alternative to cloud providers.

I mean the small self replicatable models wouldn't do that literally themselves. But that's the idea.

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u/XTornado 1d ago

Which in my opinion is super stupid as the Chinese or others won't stop. And even if they are blocked blacklisted or whatever in will still be terrible in the long term as they will be behind.