More lawlessness.
NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist
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Re: NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
Side note, how did the word "lose" become "loose"? I've seen this so many times on HN.
Because your pronounce them backwards. "Loose" is a short word that ends sharply, but "lose" is a long word that slowly peters out. They should be the other way around imo.
If we're allowed to make modifications here then it should really be lose => looze and loose => luce
Re: NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist
#123The whole artificial scarcity Anthropic created around Mythos / Glasswing is quite brilliant to be honest (I’m Not saying ethical, just brilliant). The commercial gains are one side of course. But consider this: Gets labelled supply chain risk by the pentagon. Hypes up what they claim to be the most advanced hacking tool on the planet. This puts the US government into a loose / loose position. Either deny the NSA acc…
Worth noting that Trump was one who labeled them a supply chain risk for the horrible crime of setting really basic guardrails around usage. (And it's "lose" btw)
Governments are sovereign: they tell people what to do (by making laws, by exercising a monopoly of violence, etc), and nobody tells them what to do. Governments also fight wars, which means lives depend on the government's ability to command.
Private companies make products. When those products were plowshares or swords or missiles, the company didn't really have a say over how they were used, and could be compelled by the government to supply them. Now that new cloud and AI products that increase government command abilities live on servers controlled by private companies, private companies think they can tell government what to do and not do. No government will accept that, because the essence of government is autocratic sovereignty: the sovereign commands and is not commanded.
Re: NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist
#124Re: NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
Side note, how did the word "lose" become "loose"? I've seen this so many times on HN.
Because your pronounce them backwards. "Loose" is a short word that ends sharply, but "lose" is a long word that slowly peters out. They should be the other way around imo.
This was also the way I felt before I was introduced to "the magic e" (spoiler: it still doesn't make any sense)
Re: NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist
#126Once companies lay off their workers and fully self harness by making their production dependent on them.
Then we will learn what the real monetization strategy always was.
Re: NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
Side note, how did the word "lose" become "loose"? I've seen this so many times on HN.
I’m guessing most cases of loose/lose switch happen when English isn’t someone’s first language.
In my experience, this mistake happens all the time for native English speakers born in the US.
Re: NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist
#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is, but NSA reports to the director of national intelligence, not the defense secretary, so it’s unclear (to me at least) that SecDef’s opinion of Anthropic counts for anything here I guess DOD is large enough they have multiple parallel cabinet level positions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency
It’s not as clear as that. The NSA director is also, traditionally, dual-hatted as the Commander of CYBERCOM and thus a flag officer reporting ultimately to the SecDef. The DNI is responsible for coordinating/funding national intelligence activities but ultimately a lot of day to day operational decision making tends to flow through the pentagon. They would definitely need to abide by DoD policy
> They would definitely need to abide by DoD policy
The policy in question is a statement by SecDef being reviewed by courts. I think it’s fair to ask whether DNI is actually constrained by that, or if it’s a judgement call.
Re: NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would be pretty simple to see what API they're calling.
That's what I meant to get at by "it runs on their cloud." They can name that user-facing ultrareview API endpoint whatever they want, and we have no way to see what model endpoint it calls internally once running on their cloud, right?
Introduce intentional and increasingly subtle vulns and test against Sonnet, Opus, etc? Should give statistical evidence of its power.
Re: NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist
#130The whole artificial scarcity Anthropic created around Mythos / Glasswing is quite brilliant to be honest (I’m Not saying ethical, just brilliant). The commercial gains are one side of course. But consider this: Gets labelled supply chain risk by the pentagon. Hypes up what they claim to be the most advanced hacking tool on the planet. This puts the US government into a loose / loose position. Either deny the NSA acc…
I'm really tired of these claims that Mythos is "nothing by PR hype". It should be at this point eminently clear that the people working at Anthropic believe the things they say about their models. And for mythos in particular, at this point there are far too many people outside of Anthropic who have seen it and/or the vulnerabilities it has discovered for "it's nothing but hype" be anything close to a sensible position. I'm not saying we should blindly believe them; they have often used more caution than was entirely warranted (this is, in my opinion, a good thing) but the idea that all of this around Mythos and glasswing is nothing but marketing hype is nonsense. Might a disinterested 3rd party decide that they think the fire is smaller than Anthropic's smoke warranted? Yes that's possible. But the idea that it's all smoke and no fire at this point deserves no resepect whatsoever.