Posted by Ryan5453 16 hours ago
System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679258
Also: Anthropic's Project Glasswing sounds necessary to me - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681241
> AI models have reached a level of coding capability where they can surpass all but the most skilled humans at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities
I like Anthropic, but these are becoming increasingly transparent attempts to inflate the perceived capability of their products.
While some stuff is obviously marketing fluff, the general direction doesn't surprise me at all, and it's obvious that with model capabilities increase comes better success in finding 0days. It was only a matter of time.
Maybe a bad example since Nicholas works at Anthropic, but they're very accomplished and I doubt they're being misleading or even overly grandiose here
See the slide 13 minutes in, which makes it look to be quite a sudden change
> I doubt they're being misleading or even overly grandiose here
I think I agree.
We could definitely do much worse than Anthropic in terms of companies who can influence how these things develop.
The red team post goes over some more impressive finds, and says that there's hundreds more they can't disclose yet: https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/
If a bunch of CVEs do in fact get published a couple months (or whatever) from now, are you going to retract this take? It's not like their claims are totally implausible: the report about Firefox security from last month was completely genuine.
I would like to think that I would, yes.
What it comes down to, for me, is that lately I have been finding that when Anthropic publishes something like this article – another recent example is the AI and emotions one – if I ask the question, does this make their product look exceptionally good, especially to a casual observer just scanning the headlines or the summary, the answer is usually yes.
This feels especially true if the article tries to downplay that fact (they’re not _real_ emotions!) or is overall neutral to negative about AI in general, like this Glasswing one (AI can be a security threat!).
Is this a huge fear-driven marketing stunt to get governments and corporations into dealing with anthropic?
Yeah, makes sense. Those countries are bad because they execute state-sponsored cyber attacks, the US and Israel on the other hand are good, they only execute state-sponsored defense.
almost like they have an incentive to exaggerate