alt Hacker NewsBack in 2019, it was more fair to have caution around the larger GPT-2 models since robust text generation (by 2019 standards) was a complete unknown. For something like Mythos in 2026, where now the social implications of better LLMs are more understood, it's more fair to call it (EDIT: specifically, the declaration of its danger) a marketing gimmick.
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Qhemlomo • today at 8:07 PM
How is this a gimmick?
It changes my whole profession on a level i couldn't even imagine how we would 'solve' software engineering.
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oathvz • today at 8:08 PM
This is a natural follow up question -- what kind of an escalation or message should frontier labs/companies publish to be seen as genuine and not marketing gimmick?
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killerstorm • today at 8:12 PM
Yeah, I'm sure Anthropic loves people switching to Codex. Brilliant marketing.
It was bullshit in 2019 it's bullshit now too.
They just keep threatening governments in hope they get a legal monopoly.