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The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
The fuck is Mythos?
Anthropic’s latest model that they haven’t released to the public yet since they’re worried its gonna fuck up cybersecurity this thread goes over it a bit
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On a more productive note, this feels likely to be tied in with the usual issues of AI sycophancy re: false positive rate. If you ask the model to tell you about security vulnerabilities, it's never going to tell you there aren't any, any more than existing scanners will. When I worked for F5 it was not uncommon to have to go down a list of vulnerabilities that someone's scanner turned out and figure out whether they were actually something that needed mitigation that could be applied on our box, something that needed to be configured somewhere else in the network (usually on their actual servers) or (most commonly) a false positive, e.g. "your software version would be vulnerable here, which is why it flagged, but you don't have the relevant module activated and if an attacker is able to modify your system to enable it you're already compromised to a far greater degree than this would allow." That was with existing tools that weren't trying to match a pattern and complete a prompt.* Given that we've seen the shitshow that is Claude Code I think it's pretty clear they're getting high on their own supply and this announcement ought be catnip for black hats.
Is it their next model that tbey swear isn’t vaporware but no! It is too dangerous to release into the world because it’ll find too much insecure code or whatever.
Okay but like is it materially different than whatever the current Claude thing is or did they just pump the size of the matrix?
Probably a markdown file telling it "you are a l33t h4x0r"
Okay but that's already in Claude
Ia ia Claude! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Claude Anthr'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! Ia! Ia!