Post #1538817
2026-04-22 05:55 UTC
The claim that Anthropic's Mythos is so skilled at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities that it's too dangerous to release has, unsurprisingly, nothing to do with security and everything to do with marketing.
"The flagship demonstration document turns out to be like the ending of the Wizard of Oz, a sorry disappointment about a model weaponizing two bugs that a different model found, in software the vendor had already patched, in a test environment with the browser sandbox and defense-in-depth mitigations stripped out. Anthropic failed, and somehow the story was flipped into a warning about its success."
The Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic | flyingpenguin
https://www.flyingpenguin.com/the-boy-that-cried-mythos-verification-is-collapsing-trust-in-anthropic/
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@corsac@mastodon.social 2026-04-22 10:09
@cazencott@lipn.info still having trouble reconciling this with that: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/privacy-security/ai-security-zero-day-vulnerabilities/ My timeline seems to be half and half about that…