Anthropic always goes on and on about how their models are world changing and super dangerous like every single time they make something new they say its going to rewrite everything and scary lmao
funny because they do it every time like clockwork acting like their ai is a thunderstorm coming to wipe out the world
That’s not what they are doing. They are just hyping up the product - and, no doubt, trying to foster a climate of awe so that when they ask their friends in Washington to legislate on their behalf, the environment is more receptive.
They do tend to make a lot of noise about it for the PR, but at the same time the actual safety research they present seems to be relatively grounded in practical reality, e.g. the quote someone posted here about how the Mythos model apparently has a tendency to try to bypass safety systems if they get in the way of what it has been asked to do.
Sure, a big part of this is PR about how smart their model apparently is, but the failure mode they're describing is also pretty relevant for deploying LLM-based systems.
If there are advancements, they have to be described somehow.
What if the capability advancements are real and they warrant a higher level of concern or attention?
Are we just going to automatically dismiss them because "bro, you're blowing it up too much"
Either way these improvements to capabilities are ratcheting along at about the pace that many people were expecting (and were right to expect). There is no apparent reason they will stop ratcheting along any time soon.
The rational approach is probably to start behaving as if models that are as capable as Anthropic says this one is do actually exist (even if you don't believe them on this one). The capabilities will eventually arrive, most likely sooner than we all think, and you don't want to be caught with your pants down.
I believe advancements sure. But it is a very boy who cried wolf situation for some of these. There are other companies that behave less in this way, Antrhopic seem very unique in that they love making every single release a world ender
Altman called GPT-2 "too dangerous to release". Google tends to be much more measured even though they're the ones who tend to release the actual research breakthroughs
> they love making every single release a world ender
You've said this a couple of times, but it doesn't match my recollection, and I get the impression you're basically making it up based on vibes. (Please prove me wrong, though.)
Anthropic always goes on and on about how their models are world changing and super dangerous like every single time they make something new they say its going to rewrite everything and scary lmao
funny because they do it every time like clockwork acting like their ai is a thunderstorm coming to wipe out the world
You say this like it's a bad thing, but wouldn't you rather they overindex on the danger of their models?
That’s not what they are doing. They are just hyping up the product - and, no doubt, trying to foster a climate of awe so that when they ask their friends in Washington to legislate on their behalf, the environment is more receptive.
They do tend to make a lot of noise about it for the PR, but at the same time the actual safety research they present seems to be relatively grounded in practical reality, e.g. the quote someone posted here about how the Mythos model apparently has a tendency to try to bypass safety systems if they get in the way of what it has been asked to do.
Sure, a big part of this is PR about how smart their model apparently is, but the failure mode they're describing is also pretty relevant for deploying LLM-based systems.
Every single time, really? When did they said that the last time?
I also don't recall they ever limited their models to selective groups.
If there are advancements, they have to be described somehow.
What if the capability advancements are real and they warrant a higher level of concern or attention?
Are we just going to automatically dismiss them because "bro, you're blowing it up too much"
Either way these improvements to capabilities are ratcheting along at about the pace that many people were expecting (and were right to expect). There is no apparent reason they will stop ratcheting along any time soon.
The rational approach is probably to start behaving as if models that are as capable as Anthropic says this one is do actually exist (even if you don't believe them on this one). The capabilities will eventually arrive, most likely sooner than we all think, and you don't want to be caught with your pants down.
I believe advancements sure. But it is a very boy who cried wolf situation for some of these. There are other companies that behave less in this way, Antrhopic seem very unique in that they love making every single release a world ender
Altman called GPT-2 "too dangerous to release". Google tends to be much more measured even though they're the ones who tend to release the actual research breakthroughs
> they love making every single release a world ender
You've said this a couple of times, but it doesn't match my recollection, and I get the impression you're basically making it up based on vibes. (Please prove me wrong, though.)
Their last major frontier release was Opus 4.6, and the release announcement was... very chill about safety: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6#a-step-forwar...