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> The whole artificial scarcity Anthropic created around Mythos / Glasswing is quite brilliant to be honest Isn’t that just the same strategy OpenAI has used o
by latexr 6mo ago
> The whole artificial scarcity Anthropic created around Mythos / Glasswing is quite brilliant to be honest
Isn’t that just the same strategy OpenAI has used over and over? Sam Altman is always “OMG, the new version of ChatGPT is so scary and dangerous”, but then releases it anyway (tells you a lot about his values—or lack thereof) and it’s more of the same. Pretty sure Aesop had a fable about that. “The CEO who cried ‘what we’ve made is too dangerous’”, or something.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf
- Filligree 6mo agoAnthropic has not in fact released it, and it does in fact appear to be that dangerous, judging by the flood of vulnerability reports seen by e.g. Daniel Stenberg. Certainly it’s a strategy OpenAI has used before, and when they did so it was a lie. Altman’s dishonesty does not mean it can never be true, however.
- embedding-shape 6mo ago> judging by the flood of vulnerability reports seen by e.g. Daniel Stenberg Maybe I've missed anything, but what Stenberg been complaining about so far been the wave of sloppy reports, seemingly reported by/mainly by AIs. Has that ratio somehow changed recently to mainly be good reports with real vulnerabilities?
- depr 6mo agoYes: > The challenge with AI in open source security has transitioned from an AI slop tsunami into more of a ... plain security report tsunami. Less slop but lots of reports. Many of them really good. > I'm spending hours per day on this now. It's intense. https://mastodon.social/@bagder/116336957584445742 https://mastodon.social/@bagder/116336957584445742
- StrauXX 6mo agoHe has changed his opinion completely. Yes, the ratio has turned.
- rhdunn 6mo agoSome relevant links: [1] https://www.npr.org/2026/04/11/nx-s1-5778508/anthropic-project-glasswing-ai-cybersecurity-mythos-preview https://www.npr.org/2026/04/11/nx-s1-5778508/anthropic-proje... > Improvement in AI models' capabilities became noticeable early 2026, said Daniel Stenberg. > He estimates that about 1 in 10 of the reports are security vulnerabilities, the rest are mostly real bugs. Just three months into 2026, the cURL team Stenberg leads has found and fixed more vulnerabilities than each of the previous two years. [2] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danielstenberg_curl-activity-7450451335860117504-SM48 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danielstenberg_curl-activity-... > The new #curl, AI, security reality shown with some graphs. Part of my work-in-progress presentation at foss-north on April 28.
- amarcheschi 6mo agoHow many months till they release a better model than mythos to general audience? Gpt 2 wasn't released fully because OpenAI deemed it too dangerous, rings a bell? https://openai.com/index/better-language-models/#sample1 https://openai.com/index/better-language-models/#sample1
- Hizonner 6mo agoA few months of restricting access to people they think will actually fix problems is a big deal. Obviously only an idiot would think it could or should be kept under wraps forever.
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- kordlessagain 6mo agoThose vulnerabilities were found by open models as well.
- mccr8 6mo agoNot really. The models were pointed specifically at the location of the vulnerability and given some extra guidance. That's an easier problem than simply being pointed at the entire code base.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 6mo agoSurely the Anthropic model also only looked at one chunk of code at a time. Cannot fit the entire code base into context. So supplying an identical chunk size (per file, function, whatever) and seeing if the open source model can find anything seems fair. Deliberately prompting with the problem is not.
- abustamam 6mo agoPartly true. I think the consensus was it wasn't comparable because Mythos swept the entire codebase and found the vulnerabilities, whereas the open models were told where to look for said vulnerabilities. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47732337 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47732337
- mccr8 6mo agoThe flood of reports that open source projects like curl, Linux and Chromium are getting are presumably due to public models like Open 4.6 that released earlier this year, and not models with limited availability.
- xiphias2 6mo agoIt was from GPT-2 and Dario was part of the developers of that model while he was working in OpenAI, not Sam Altman, it's his playbook
- latexr 6mo ago> It was from GPT-2 Prior to the released of GPT-5, Sam said he was scared of it and compared it to the Manhattan Project.
- rib3ye 6mo agoNot just Altman. Buffett said it also, more generally. https://youtu.be/vZlMWF6iFZg https://youtu.be/vZlMWF6iFZg
- kordlessagain 6mo agoThis is pretty much correct, but Mustafa Suleyman has probably been doing it longer.
- Hamuko 6mo agoNot just part of the developers, but rather "led the development of large language models like GPT-2 and GPT-3" as per his website. https://darioamodei.com/ https://darioamodei.com/
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- __MatrixMan__ 6mo agoThey way they've published hashes of the bugs it has found so that once those bugs are fixed they can responsibly disclose them while also proving that they weren't lying... that displays a willingness to dabble in evidence which is far beyond anything OpenAI has done to support their claims.
- j-bos 6mo agoThis. I see much cheap naysaying without referenece to the vuln hashes. If it is smoke and mirrors, then the naysayers should loudly shout down the specific hashes and when they get revealed, or don't, then they will have done a great service to dissuading fake claims to world changing tech.
- badgersnake 6mo agoIt proves that at least some of the bugs exist, not that you need “new thing” to find them or that they even used “new thing” to find them. There was a story the other day about others finding the same bugs with qwen.
- __MatrixMan__ 6mo agoCertainly. As evidence goes it's a tremendously limited strategy. But the bar for such things is pretty low right now, so it doesn't take much to outdo the others by quite a lot.
- Ifkaluva 6mo agoRight, but in Aesop’s fable, the wolf did eventually come. It’s asymmetric, because in this case the wolf is not coming for the boy, it’s coming for everybody else
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 6mo agoThe boy isn't crying wolf strictly to save himself. He does it to get the attention of the town, knowing they'll come to the aid of the livestock he's been tasked with watching. Yes, their aid is primarily to save the boy, but the danger is still to the larger community rather than isolated to the lookout.
- okamiueru 6mo agoOr, the wolf is just a squeeky toy.
- stackghost 6mo ago>Sam Altman is always “OMG, the new version of ChatGPT is so scary and dangerous”, but then releases it anyway One of the many reasons nobody should give Scam Altman their money. It's continually infuriating that this serial grifter is in such a position of power.
- bdelmas 6mo agoIt’s absolutely a move from Sam Altman’s playbook but it got traction because it’s not coming from Sam Altman and the US rejection helped to give credibility to fear Mythos’ findings.