Yann LeCun Isn’t Buying Anthropic’s Cyberattack Story

Yann LeCun, the soon to be Ex Meta Chief AI Scientist, publicly disputed Anthropic’s claim that a recent cyber-espionage campaign using Claude Code was carried out by “a Chinese state-sponsored group,” arguing that the attribution is unsupported and is being used to justify policies that will restrict open-source AI.

In a post on X, LeCun wrote, “You’re being played by people who want regulatory capture. They are scaring everyone with dubious studies so that open-source models are regulated out of existence”

https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1989364612651966788

Anthropic described the incident as the first known large-scale cyberattack executed mostly by an AI system. In its report, the company wrote, “We assess with high confidence that the threat actor was a Chinese state-sponsored group”.