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Anthropic open source vulnerability service

An opt-in vulnerability-finding service for open-source software

6 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Tim Kellogg
“Claude for critical infrastructure Anthropic has a new program where open source projects can apply to use a new service for code review to spot vulnerabilities Users must prove that they’re actually maintainers, and projects must be critical infrastructure…” evidence ↗
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“I understand that Anthropic thinks they're doing open source projects a favor here, but what they're actually doing is creating an enormous amount of work for people that they are not paying. www.anthropic.com/research/lau...”

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“Claude for critical infrastructure Anthropic has a new program where open source projects can apply to use a new service for code review to spot vulnerabilities Users must prove that they’re actually maintainers, and projects must be critical infrastructure…”

2 experts discussed this · 11 posts
evacide: I understand that Anthropic thinks they're doing open source projects a favor here, but what they're actually doing is creating an enormous amount of work for people that they are not paying. www.a…
evacide: What do you do if you are the core maintainer on a project and your options are "more vuln reports than you can ever hope to triage" or "someone finds a critical 0day in your project and either exp…
evacide: I assume that the reason requests are considered on a case-by-case basis is that they think they will be able to catch all of these.
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4 experts · 27 posts · 15d ago
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“Oh yeah doing it right requires taste and judgment, same as ever, we‘re just going to fly closer to the sun before the wax melts. My concern is less about security reviews and more about compoundin…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Opportunity & adoption · 2 Markets & investment · 1
Luis Villa: I would like this to be right, but I don't think it is. Once upon a time I looked semi-seriously on what it would take to do self-hosting on an Android base: apps fully sandboxed; installable from …
Luis Villa: Really deserves a whole essay, but: capitalist (really, Venture Capitalist) control of software creates enshittification in a very specific, predictable dynamic; third-party control of our data has…
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4 experts · 26 posts · 19d ago
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“just that when they come out the other side and say “I was concerned about ethics the whole time” you have to give David more credit than you do with that Meta wave.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Context & explanation · 2 Questions & unknowns · 1
James Grimmelmann: I don’t think the co-founder of Upturn is cynically trading in on leaving OpenAI to make his lifelong dream of running a nonprofit come true.
James Grimmelmann: Or Tyler Whitmer?
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4 experts · 14 posts · 11d ago
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“One quote I think about a lot was a Black Twitterer saying "the racism at Cracker Barrel makes the pancakes taste better." Maybe IP theft is the secret sauce?” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1 Context & explanation · 1
Amy Hoy: summarizing text is actually an incredibly difficult task (for people) and i’m continuously surprised that it’s positioned as being trivial
Amy Hoy: i assumed so. but yeah diff models will work better for diff stuff as jake says, but imo none of them are great at it except the frontier models
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3 experts · 13 posts · 16d ago
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“I had fewer. It was largely view-from-nowhere. Not that it was super hard to puzzle out—like if you’re critiquing originalism in Heller, you could be on the left or right because it’s transparently…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 2 Concern & critique · 1
Andrew Selbst: I am transparent about my views in class and I emphasize that they are mine and people are free to disagree if they have reasons. I think being intellectually honest about arguments’ strengths and …
Andrew Selbst: That was my stance long before the magic machine could tell them my views too.
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2 experts · 3 posts · 18d ago
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“And the vitriol Askell has been subjected to is really crazy” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1
Luis Villa: Many of the core AI developers agree with this completely! But it tends to also correlate with other beliefs that boil down to “it won’t matter because once they get that smart they’ll enslave (or …
Dashiell: Writing and thinking about this absolutely exists, but for the most part only in small sub-communities. The closest thing to a public discussion has been from Amanda Askell and the very light "mode…
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