If the NSA director said this, literally and verbatim, then him, and maybe several of his predecessors, should be remembered as the worst directors the NSA has ever had.

LLMs cannot create anything new, they can only repeat their training data. Ergo, the NSA director just admitted that their systems a) can be accessed from the Internet, b) have known, already exploitable (and probably already fixed) bugs, and enough of them to do the job in mere hours.

This is shameful.

Edit: From what I can tell, the NSA director didn't literally and verbatim say this, and it is second hand and (possibly) vastly misconstrued.

Somebody lied, I'm not sure who, but any claim Mythos can suddenly work, when every LLM before it couldn't, needs to be taken with a gigantic supermassive grain of salt.