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Re: NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist

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Post by jimmar »

First of all, what "blacklist?" The article puts that in the title, but never explains anything about a blacklist.

> The National Security Agency is using Anthropic's most powerful model yet, Mythos Preview, despite top officials at the Department of Defense — which oversees the NSA — insisting the company is a "supply chain risk," two sources tell Axios.

I find the article confusing. My impression of the "supply chain risk" wasn't that Anthropic's products themselves were risky, but that the Department of Defense would be at risk if they could not use Anthropic's products. Like, of course the NSA wants to use it. They are fearful about not being able to use it.

Re: NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist

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Post by croes »

jimmar wrote: post #301

First of all, what "blacklist?" The article puts that in the title, but never explains anything about a blacklist. > The National Security Agency is using Anthropic's most powerful model yet, Mythos Preview, despite top officials at the Department of Defense — which oversees the NSA — insisting the company is a "supply chain risk," two sources tell Axios. I find the article confusing. My impression of the "supply cha…

Anthropic has been designated a Supply Chain risk, the whole company.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/where-stand-department-war

Re: NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist

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Post by seventytwo »

at-fates-hands wrote: post #280
cdrnsf wrote: post #271

Of course they're using it. Hypocrisy is one of the few things this administration excels at.

THIS administration? As if we just arrived here in 2024?

Yes. This administration. The Trump administration.

Clear enough?

Re: NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist

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Post by HDThoreaun »

coldtea wrote: post #19
estearum wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're misunderstanding. The government is the one that said it didn't want/couldn't use this "weapon."

This is not surprising. Did anyone really think the government wouldn't lie?

The government has thousands of leaders with competing priorities. Different parts of the government doing different things isnt lying.

Re: NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist

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Post by skirmish »

abustamam wrote: post #209
latexr wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe that’s part of it, but I’ve also noticed autocorrect on my devices often correcting incorrectly. As in, I type the word correctly and it decides “oh, surely you meant this other similarly spelled word” and changes it. Sometimes I don’t notice until after sending the message.

I use MS SwiftKey on my android phone and it will often autocorrect my correctly spelled, correctly used, words, to words that probably don't exist in any language (recently it corrected "blow" to "blpw"). I have French installed on my keyboard as well so sometimes it will randomly correct English words to French words (inconsistently, but at least they're words), but blpw is not a word in either of those languages.…

Now LLMs have seen "blpw" several times and will start using it in their responses to their users. Next: Oxford dictionary word of the year 2026: "blpw".

Re: NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist

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Post by krisbolton »

jimmar wrote: post #301

First of all, what "blacklist?" The article puts that in the title, but never explains anything about a blacklist. > The National Security Agency is using Anthropic's most powerful model yet, Mythos Preview, despite top officials at the Department of Defense — which oversees the NSA — insisting the company is a "supply chain risk," two sources tell Axios. I find the article confusing. My impression of the "supply cha…

They're referring to Pete Hegseth's decision to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk back in early May.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/05/pentagon-tells-anth...

Re: NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist

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Post by arbitrary_name »

hagbard_c wrote: post #299
cdrnsf wrote: post #287

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, no. There was an interlude and now an even faster acceleration into madness, incompetence, grift and hypocrisy.

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the Biden administration ( i hated sleepy Joe) was so much more competent and less corrupt then these guys.

it's not even close.

"Hunter bidens laptop!!" seems so distant and quaint.

the Pentagon declared Anthropic a supply chain risk, attempting to punitively destroy the company, then is adopting their product; please name a similarly asinine and farcical event from ANY administration.

your whataboutism is just not capable of standing up to the weaponized idiocy of these guys.

Re: NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist

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Post by arbitrary_name »

hagbard_c wrote: post #306
hagbard_c wrote: post #299

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[flagged]

[flagged]

1) the Biden administration didn't start the war with Iran.

2)Sleepy Joe didn't pick a fight with the Pope

and that's just in the last month!

but that won't change your mind. nothing will.

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