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NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute

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Re: NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute

#121

mythos allowed mediocre people to get results by holding their hand through the process, or just ignoring their irrelevant input and knowing what to do. if you throw millions of tokens at IDA Pro MCP with the right prompt lets just say security by obscurity fails miserably because there is no obscurity when the LLM chews through the decompilation.

It isn’t bad, it isn’t good. It’s just how the world looks now. All software is open source now, some of it is just more open, some of it is less.

Re: NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute

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post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tim-haugh-firing-trump-60-minut...

> Haugh was fired in April of this year after far-right activist Laura Loomer met with President Trump. What kind of sick joke is that

An old forgotten joke despite being only a year old.

Re: NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute

#123

They could easily take the weights if they wanted. I don't believe they meaningfully lost access.

Who will make them the next set of weights? If a government can just seize the product of someone else's labour, either they will end up as slave owners or without willing workers.

Are you proposing that this government is above being slave owners?

Re: NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute

#124

They could easily take the weights if they wanted. I don't believe they meaningfully lost access.

the success of mythos isn't from model weights, it's from the harness and toolset it has access to

Was Fable / Mythos in pi or opencode that much worse?

Re: NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute

#125

AI marketing bullshit stunts are unlike anything I've seen in 30 years. It started with MS Copilot so called capabilities for work, which were completely made up use cases that didn't work at all (3 years later still). We've had OpenAI "AGI is coming" and "AI will take your job", now we have Mythos being so "dangerous" for cybersecurity, which of course makes the average Joe interpret it as Anthropic being "the bette…

The US has gone all in on AI because it is one of the few things in which they still have an advantage over Asian countries. I wouldn't use the word pathetic but rather "desperation".

Re: NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute

#126

AI marketing bullshit stunts are unlike anything I've seen in 30 years. It started with MS Copilot so called capabilities for work, which were completely made up use cases that didn't work at all (3 years later still). We've had OpenAI "AGI is coming" and "AI will take your job", now we have Mythos being so "dangerous" for cybersecurity, which of course makes the average Joe interpret it as Anthropic being "the bette…

I was able to identify, diagnose, fix, and upstream a minor bug in and erlang/OTP ssh key implementation with Opus in maybe 20 minutes (+2 weeks or so for upstream). It is not impossible that I could have done this before, but it would have taken days or weeks. The actual fix was about 2 lines of code, hardly AI slop, but getting there would have been quite the slog, and I never would have done it. There is a lot of…

> I was able to identify, diagnose, fix, ...

a link to the PR or Changelog would strengthen this comment that it actually happened?

Re: NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute

#128

Everyone lost access. What even is mainstream news these days.

> Everyone lost access.

Yes. But unlike the rest of us, NSA didn't have to if the administration had thought about it for 30 seconds before sending their letter. It's a stupid own-goal.

Re: NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute

#129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All for a product that has yet to make a single honest dollar in profit for anyone who isn't nvidia. When this goes we might well see a recession. Not that anyone responsible will be worse off, of course.

The perpetrators all have their golden parachutes. The taxpayers will foot the bill.

The US is trillions in debt. We live in the age of magic- nobody foots the bill.

Re: NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute

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> every math phd i am acquainted with has been approached by nsa recruiters. how many of them took them up on the offer, and how many are in leadership roles? it takes a very narrow range of personality to want to be a cop, which at the end of the day is a government job... the only people they make rich are contractors I'm not saying there aren't smart people working there but it's ridiculous to assume they have an…

> how many of them took them up on the offer, and how many are in leadership roles? this is not really relevant to the point, but to satisfy your curiosity: more than one, and one. > it takes a very narrow range of personality to want to be a cop the nsa's brightest aren't doing "cop" things. certainly none of the people i know of working there are "cop-minded" in any sense. they are doing cool research and applicati…

all the people working at the cop agency hope they're not doing cop shit, but it's the whole reason the agency exists
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