It smells an awful lot like the government is trying to pick a winner. Or, at least, a loser.

It would be a lot more believable this was pure corruption if it didn't come right after anthropic said mythos was a super weapon.

From another angle that's maybe just a welcome excuse? Or it's some kind of more symbiotic malfeasance? Any way you slice it, it stinks. If it is actually about some misguided attempt at public safety or national security, what could possibly be the actual goal?

AI companies always say that whenever they release a bigger model.

GPT-2 was to dangerous to release too

I don't think anyone outside of, like, HN realize it was released...

They were correct. Look how much worse society got that directly traces back to releasing GPT-2.