Comment by meander_water
1 day ago
I think this is a largely inflated PR stunt.
Opus 4.6 was already capable of finding 0days and chaining together vulns to create exploits. See [0] and [1].
[0] https://www.csoonline.com/article/4153288/vim-and-gnu-emacs-...
Absolutely not a PR stunt, talk to one of your friends working at partner companies with access to the model
I’m in the same boat as you. I believe the model is an improvement of course but I’ve been successfully bug finding 0 day hunting and red teaming with models for the last two years and while that’s impressive I have a feeling that this doomsaying/overhype is mostly marketing being that’s being amplified by non-security folks.
I don't see why you think this evidence makes this release less likely to be real, rather than more. It's a pretty straightforward scenario: Opus is already good at finding vulns, they scaled it up another OOM, they got something which is good enough at finding vulns to be a major threat.
I think you misunderstood, I do think it's real. I just think they're being disingenuous that this is a new threat. This is the same company that reported that their models were being used by a state actor to perform exploits in real-time - https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage
They know how to run a good marketing campaign.
Did you read the article?