Bullshit. The amount of negligence required for their scenario to even be plausible is insane

They built malware and should be held accountable for it

no, they’ve reached the point of diminishing returns on development, so they’re creating fake scenarios to convince the government that they need guard rails. “our product is so dangerous and cool that it can hack the world, but they won’t let us.” it’s about convincing investors that the lack of advancement is due to external limitations, not the technology hitting the ceiling.

Also to say “we’ll do our best to keep them contained, but those Chinese companies will probably try to make them wreak havoc. The best bet is clearly to ban our competition from the market, for your safety of course.”

By any chance, do they need the kind of guardrails that would shut out competitors?

What the BBC said:

The models found a weakness in what was supposed to be an isolated test environment and connected to the internet

The reality:

Anthropic said that in each of these cases “Claude was explicitly told by our prompt that it had no internet access.”

So the lack of an “isolated test environment” was literally their fault. They left the door open, and was surprised when the genius web crawler couldn’t distinguish between an internal page and an external page based on any context clues.

It was supposed to have no internet access, but the config was wrong. The report goes on to say that Opus and Mythos then proceeded on the premise that everything was a simulation, while the unnamed stronger model concluded after a while that it had real internet access and stopped the attack.

Anthropic writes a shitty roleplay every other week and somehow it still makes the news.

This coming off the end of the OpenAI/HuggingFace business does come across rather like Anthropic is doing a “actually, our models did it first, and better”.

Didn’t the company also recently have a spot of bother with the US government recently, where their new models were banned because of all their rabble about it being too dangerous? This hardly seems like it would help their case.