alt Hacker News> Important: To avoid potential real-world harm, our work only ever tested exploits in blockchain simulators. We never tested exploits on live blockchains and our work had no impact on real-world assets.
Well, that's no fun!
My favorite we're-living-in-a-cyberpunk-future story is the one where there was some bug in Ethereum or whatever, and there was a hacker going around stealing everybody's money, so then the good hackers had to go and steal everybody's money first, so they could give it back to them after the bug got fixed.
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I’m surprised folks aren’t already grinding against smart contract security in prod with gen AI and agents. If they are, I suppose they are not being conspicuous by design. Power and GPU time goes in, exploits and crypto comes out.
"Money". The real cyberpunks would switch to anonymous, untraceable cash.
I couldnt find it in the article, how do they "assume" how many victims will fall to these contract exploits?
And to go further: if it costs $3500 in ai tokens, to fix a bug that could steal $3600, who should pay for that? Whos responsibility is it for "dumbass suckers who use other peoples buggy or purposefully malicious money based code" ?
At best this is another weird ad by anthropic, trying to say, hey why arent you changing the world with our stuff, pay up quick hurry
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The whole ethereum fork was such a funny situation.
"Our currency is immutable and all, no banks or any law messing with your money"
"oh, but that contract that people got conned by need to be fixed, let's throw all promises into the trash and undo that"
"...so you just acted as bank or regulators would, because the Important People lost some money"
"essentially yeah"