Comment by enraged_camel
13 hours ago
This whole thing is an absolute disaster honestly, and yes it is being downplayed and hand-waved away.
Since March, so many people have mocked Anthropic for their approach to Mythos release, claimed it was all marketing, accused them of holding back the best models from the general public to boost their revenues and upcoming IPO, etcetera. Yet these OpenAI revelations offer a small glimpse into the type of world we would be in if everyone had full access to these models from day one.
OpenAI was desperate to catch up, and no doubt under tremendous pressure to do so. That's why they were so reckless with their training. They have been doing damage control and reputation management, talking about how important alignment is and how they will slow things down and so on, and have seen the light in terms of holding back cyber capabilities from everyone except a select few. So in a sense, Anthropic has been fully vindicated.
I wonder if OpenAI boosters (and employees) will ever admit this and publicly apologize.
This has been the case forever. Anthropic is the only provider that has constantly put AI safety first - check any study on model safety and Anthropic models out-perform handedly.
None of the labs are blameless. For instance, after the recent announcement of a 2-week frontier RL pause from OpenAI, Anthropic declined to communicate a substantial parallel pause [1], although they discussed also briefly pausing some "high-risk" runs.
Anthropic has been the most vocal about AI risks, but it feels like all the big 3 have bought into the "others will do it if we don't do it first" narrative at this point. It increasingly gives "just following orders" vibes.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529511
I'd say Gemini over Anthropic. Google's overcaution literally hamstrung its own AI progression efforts. Anthropic is just all talk, no bluster, when it comes to safety and ethics. If they were ah so concerned about AI safety, they wouldn't go around marketing Fable's hacking capabilities like they are now.
Wild that you are downvoted so much.
The HN majority and the VC crowd has been negligently complicit in downplaying AI safety, writing off Anthropic's statements as "hysteria" or "marketing", etc.
Now this capability will be coming to an open source model near you and every script kiddie will have a swarm of highly capable malicious agents. Now people care? Ridiculous.