alt Hacker NewsThat's great and all but how severe were the most severe vulnerabilities found? I imagine they don't want to talk about it, but that's really the most interesting and important bit.
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As much as I’d like to share in the skepticism, the very beginning of the article states it very plainly — this is a step function.
Lots of people feel that Mythos is a psyops campaign, but I don’t really understand the skepticism. Most of it seems to stem from the general distrust of things that aren’t publicly available.
A few Anthropic employees have described Mythos as a general purpose model improvement, but that claim has yet to be widely backed up so that’s the only place I’m remaining skeptical.
For the domain of security research, I’m willing to buy the narrative.
Most of their new products are AI tools that nobody uses, so I guess they’ll keep posting slop. And recently, they’ve fired so many people that they probably don’t have good writers anymore.
I've settled in on the opinion that it's much more creative and able to run agentically for longer periods of time. So, despite it not having drastically better "hard skills", it's able to combine those together in more effective ways.
Right now, many of these vulns are identifiable by Opus, but they still require a human-in-the-loop (and often a skilled one) to guide towards complex exploits. Without a human in the loop, this means it's a lot easy for the average person to identify and leverage an exploit.