Anthropic's Claude Mythos isn't a sentient super-hacker, it's a sales pitch(www.tomshardware.com)
26 pointsby edwardsrobbie5 hours ago6 comments
  • wolttam25 minutes ago
    And this attitude is how you get compromised in the near future.

    No reason to expect capabilities of models are going to stop.

    • xinayder15 minutes ago
      The whole announcement is full of FUD and fearmongering. They say they can't talk about 99% of the findings, they claim one of their experiments went "public" and posted to some very obscure websites no one has heard of, but didn't disclose which websites were these...

      They are saying "trust me, bro, I have a superhacker model" and proceed to show 0 evidence that it is what they are hyping.

      • 2fdsdf10 minutes ago
        I think we are learning as we go along much of what goes on in the world.

        E.g. even though LLMs can generate code and we have agents - the profession of software engineers is not being destroyed. The demand for software engineers in the labour market is still strong.

        Also a thing that wasnt spoken about loudly (and for good reason) is that code is not perfect - this means bugs/vulnerabilities are there. And the reality is, it is optimal to have done this - for it were not done, the release of software and the moving of resources towards other projects would slow. Aka slowing down economic activity.

  • nikolay3 hours ago
    Yup! It's so scary good we're not gonna sell it - change our minds... by investing gazillions of dollars. Well, one thing is for sure: if it exists, Palantir will be using it!
    • solenoid093726 minutes ago
      They are selling it, just not to script kiddies. Or do you think Apple, the Linux Foundation, etc are just participating in a massive conspiracy/rugpull?
      • nikolay2 minutes ago
        So, suddenly, you see, open-source projects, which thousands of hackers have been trying to hack for decades, are gonna get hacked by an LLM. I need to see at least one such mitigation by Mythos, then we can assess the situation.
  • solenoid093732 minutes ago
    When these models come out and/or the responsible disclosure period elapses, I wonder if the naysayers will admit they were wrong, or if they'll just continue naysaying the latest bit of news about AI.

    In my view the naysayers always simply been moving the goalposts, and never admit when they were wrong. "AI just produces slop" -> "AI can't write useful code" -> "AI can't take SWE jobs" -> [we are here]

    • 2fdsdf13 minutes ago
      And there were people like you claiming that the jobs of SWE's would start imploding the moment LLMs could generate sufficient code that could be considered production grade.

      You, just like 'them' are no better. It would be better if all those on the extreme ends could be muted - the truth is closer to the middle.

      • solenoid09378 minutes ago
        Nearly all big tech code is AI written today. What about that isn't "production-grade?"

        Didn't Oracle just lay of 30k people, Meta plans on laying off thousands more this year, Microsoft and Amazon have already done layoffs in the name of AI?

        And it's impossible for new grads in CS to find a job. You would have to be insane to study CS in college today. My big tech org hasn't hired interns in over a year.

        I don't think anyone claimed "all SWE jobs would disappear by April 2026," but two things have come true:

        - AI can write nearly all new code at today, and it does at many companies. (People were very skeptical when Dario claimed this would happen just over a year ago)

        - AI has fundamentally de-valued programming. Code is cheap.

        So at what point should naysayers update their priors? How many times must people be proven wrong to think "maybe I have the wrong perspective here after all?"

        Full disclosure, I used to be a skeptic myself in the early days, but I think being a skeptic today is pure stubbornness, not rational.

        • 2fdsdf6 minutes ago
          With all due respect, you sound like a bozo - Ive seen you edit your post about 5 times.

          What matters is the aggregate activity in the labour market - for which - the activity associated with demand for software engineers is healthy.

  • Legend24402 hours ago
    >Many of the "thousands" of bugs and vulnerabilities it found are in older software, or are impossible to exploit.

    So?

    Modern software is designed with a defense in depth model, so it often requires chaining multiple vulnerabilities to get a successful exploit. But individual vulnerabilities still need finding and fixing because people might find vulnerabilities in the other isolation layers later.

    I swear every time an LLM does something useful, the usual band of skeptics bends over backwards trying to invent reasons to dismiss it.

    • sagacityan hour ago
      The argument is that it is older software in the sense that it's unmaintained because better alternatives exist.

      Also, I don't believe it is fair to dismiss skeptics as inventing reasons. If anything, "believers" are bending over backwards to praise Anthropic even though they didn't actually release anything.

    • mrhottakesan hour ago
      I swear every time an LLM does something stupid, the usual band of AI hype pushers bends over backwards trying to invent reasons that it's actually good.
  • thewhitetulip3 hours ago
    I read that it is 5x costly. Could that be the reason for the marketing?
  • boxingdog2 hours ago
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