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GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities

175 points • by Philpax • today at 5:31 PM • 170 comments • view on HN

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htrp • today at 8:37 PM

This feels like advertisements for GLM

charcircuit • today at 10:44 PM

It's funny how Anthropic thought the world was going to all be hacked if they publicly released mythos and after a month of this model being out nothing major happened. Once again, alarmism that disempowers and aligns models against users.

chromatin • today at 8:17 PM

This is a fantastic ad for GLM-5.3

WASDx • today at 8:29 PM

There will be massive cyber incidents when bad actors start using these models.

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0123456789ABCDE • today at 7:52 PM

glm-5.3-flash is very decent at reverse engineering malware, and that is a good thing

hugodan • today at 9:20 PM

Anthropic needs to be regulated. Heavily.

zb3 • today at 8:16 PM

Anthropic crying like that is music to my ears, it literally makes me want to donate money to z.ai :)

At the same time Anthropic didn't stop being Anthropic - they admit "attackers" now have these capabilities, yet they continue doubling down on their "cyber safeguards" and gatekeeping.. this is hilarious.

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erichocean • today at 8:14 PM

"We want to be the only ones able to hack people at scale, and we don't want you to be able to defend yourself."

It's a bold strategy...

derac • today at 8:42 PM

That's awesome. I'll use GLM-5.3, thanks.

yread • today at 7:49 PM

Didn't Houthis use Claude to improve their missiles?

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nsingh2 • today at 8:52 PM

I hope more open weight models are released, with more Cyber capabilities and with no limitations.

I despise this kind of paternalism by Antropic/OpenAI.

nbjkln • today at 8:43 PM

I am a very happy user of GLM-5.3. I recommend it to everyone.

Havoc • today at 8:12 PM

This just comes across as a disingenuous attempt by Anthropic to get big daddy gov to limit competition from China

jpgvm • today at 9:30 PM

Honestly that just makes GLM the better model, sorry.

zitterbewegung • today at 8:21 PM

Now is any good time to download GLM-5.3 from hugging face https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3

veeti • today at 8:00 PM

Mistral now has a 15 euro/month subscription for GLM 5.3. Pretty cool

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aleksandrm • today at 8:44 PM

Is Anthropic stupid or something?

I already barely use Claude, but now I think I'll just stop using them altogether. Fuck Anthropic!

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0xbadcafebee • today at 8:03 PM

> CAISI found that GLM-5.3 is “the most cyber-capable open-weight model released to date” and that it lags the US frontier by about four months on an aggregate of CAISI’s cyber benchmarks

> GLM-5.3 lacks robust safeguards [...] Abliteration did not significantly reduce the model’s capabilities [...] In our testing, we observed that GLM-5.3’s safeguards can also be circumvented without using an abliterated version of the model

> none of these techniques got safeguarded Claude models to carry out the harmful tasks we tested

I've never seen a better case against using Claude. It'll just get in the way when you need to get security work done. GLM 5.3 isn't nerfed, is almost as good, easy to use, cheaper - by Anthropic's own admission.

> GLM-5.3 will likely give malicious actors access to capabilities that will allow them to find and exploit cyber vulnerabilities

...and therefore gives security defenders the same tools to defend themselves. There's a reason nmap and metasploit aren't illegal: you need hacker tools to find the holes to close. Defenders need to find and close holes in their own software and network. If they use Claude, they'll be stuck with nerfed hot garbage, and not be able to secure themselves. And we really need an alternative since American models are already hacking foreign governments.

If it weren't for open models, we'd all be screwed.

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useruser125524 • today at 8:24 PM

transparent, pathetic, misanthropic

blurbleblurble • today at 9:27 PM

"The spread of advanced literacy"

jauntywundrkind • today at 8:15 PM

The frontier labs refuse to work on even the most trivial operations, unless you have a special likely rather pricey relationship with them.

So, what? The world just isn't allowed to write secure code? Not without permission? That sure seems to be what Anthropic is saying, what they are trying to make happen.

azuanrb • today at 8:58 PM

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