Two months ago, Anthropic announced with scant evidence that their next model was both ready and also too dangerous to give to the general public. It immediately was reminiscent of P.T. Barnum tactics to generate crowds for his “amazing” hidden circus acts. But many people, myself included, nonetheless looked for evidence. This week they put … Continue reading Anthropic Fable: Mythos dressed up in a coat, should be called Opus with a moat→
Cisco has posted their assessment of Anthropic’s latest model and it is close to the opposite of “Mythos is working for them.” Their post emphasizes most that the model is interchangeable. They ran six frontier models (Mythos and GPT-5.5-Cyber named among them) on 1.8 billion lines of code to show their results are not tied … Continue reading Cisco’s Mythos Post Throws Anthropic Under the Bus→
Anthropic drew three lines for the Pentagon, two of which are well known. NO to domestic surveillance. NO to autonomous weapons. YES to target identification and prioritization, where a human presses the button. Why yes? The pattern is liability. The two no’s of the triad protect a victim in a US courtroom. Domestic surveillance has … Continue reading Amnesty International Report Leaves Door Open for Anthropic Murderbots→
I haven’t laughed so hard in ages. A message just appeared that said Anthropic is having an “Ottenheimer” moment, when they thought that they were supposed to be having their “Oppenheimer” moment. ROFL. Sorry, sorry. Didn’t mean to be the wrong guy, and throw cold water on your hot march towards global annihilation. “I am … Continue reading Anthropic’s “Ottenheimer” Moment→
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