AI labs lock down hacking skills, and open models follow
Yesterday we saw that hacking with AI is getting cheaper. Now the walls are going up. On r/LocalLLaMA, a user says a tool called REA ("Reverse Engineer Anything") was blocked by Claude one day after launch. People used it to study smart TVs that spy on their owners. The post says OpenAI blocks this kind of use too. Another user says cloud models can even close your account for reverse engineering requests.
There is also news on Kimi K3.1, the Chinese model we covered yesterday. Its open-weight release (model files anyone can download) reportedly removes cyberattack training data. The Reddit poster says this is mainly because of new Chinese export restrictions. Meanwhile, a "root shell on Samsung TV" post (full control of the TV) got 507 points on Hacker News. A GitHub repo with 35 ready-to-paste jailbreak prompts for 25+ models got 540 stars in a few days.
These are community reports, not official statements. But the direction is clear: labs and governments now decide what AI may help you hack.
Stopping attackers is good. But the same blocks also stop people who just want to check what their own devices do. And with jailbreak lists public, the locks may stop honest users more than bad ones.
