alt Hacker NewsDetecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026
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Quite the double standard here...
Conventional Weapons
-We identified a cell of threat actors based in northern Yemen
-We identified a China-based threat actor who used Claude
-We identified likely freelance Russia-based threat actors
-We identified a China-based actor who used Claude’s chat
-In this case, a Russia-based actor used Claude
-We identified a China-based threat actor who used Claude
Biological misuse
We are withholding the names of research institutions, the countries wherein the activity took place, and the specific biological agents or research techniques involved. The individuals implicated in these case studies are working scientists. We do not assert that they intended harm, and identifying them or their labs could expose them to harm.This is just an advertorial. "Our AI is so powerful that Bad Guys could actually use it for real Bad Guy Work!"
The future is basically something between: AGI/ASI will kill us all and a privacy nightmare.
Previous discussion didn't go their way, so they flagged it:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49646988
This apparently is the backup submission.
Wow they seem to have a really detailed understanding of the the threat actor.
It’s to the point I don’t even read Anthropic’s marketing blog anymore lol. The ai psychosis is just so real when people take these fluff blog posts which never have evidence or reproducibility and treat them like gospel
"Moonshot serves Claude instead of Kimi and collects exchanges for model training"
"DeepSeek serves Claude instead of its own models and collects exchanges for model training"
Obviously. This is how they were able to score so high in benchmarks.
Generated SEO slop is the misuse of AI. Very unlikely to find any guardrails to stop that kind of thing.
> We discovered that Moonshot AI, the company that produces the Kimi family of models, silently forwarded customer requests to Claude, instead of processing them using Kimi. Moonshot then displayed Claude’s responses to users. These users thought they were using a Kimi model, but received responses from Claude instead.
> DeepSeek also silently relayed exchanges to Claude without informing DeepSeek customers.
> MiniMax built its own proxy network service through a shell company. This shell company has no obvious links to MiniMax and does not disclose its relationship to its parent company. This shell proxy network service only offers access to models developed by Anthropic and OpenAI. The service does not offer access to any Chinese models, including Minimax’s own.