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by rPlayer6554 127 days ago
The binary would not be nearly as useful as the source code. And even if the AI read the binary and copied it, the story is still it reverse engineered and re-wrote a c compiler all on its own. Which is still pretty impressive to me and has real world use cases.

Maybe Anthropic could release the logs to show how the AI was accessing the files.
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fuhsnn 127 days ago
They definitely have access to the source code, look at the binutils entry [1], Claude was debugging compilation of "preprocessor #define inside #ifdef"'s in binutils's code.

[1] https://github.com/anthropics/claudes-c-compiler/blob/6f1b99...

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