Frontier AI systems have surpassed the self-replicating red line

Not quite "self-replicating AI". More of a quine. Still cool, though.

Discussion (17 points, 2 days ago, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42990401

Is this real?

In a way which is a lot more boring than than it first sounds.

We've had non-"AI" self-replicating code for many decades.