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Comment by sam0x17 | Hacker News Reader

It's all just really genius marketing. In 6 months Mythos will be nothing special, but right now everyone is being manipulated into fearing its release, as a marketing ploy.

This is the same reason AI founders perennially worry in public that they have created AGI...

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I can't believe the effectiveness of this type of marketing. It's one-shotting normie journalist and getting a lot of press for what is ultimately going to turn out to be an incrementally improved model.

I'm sure all they've done here is spend unlimited tokens to find bugs in mostly open source projects (and fuzz some closed source ones).

It's effectively 2026's version of "Doctors hate this one weird trick!"

The fact that they are not going to release this DANGEROUS model is also a huge tell that it's nothing but an incremental improvement over the status quo.

I find it very unlikely that Mythos will "be nothing special". Current Opus is already "special" enough to find dozens of real bugs in Firefox and the Linux kernel, and Mythos is, it seems, a full OOM above it.

Most flagship models have found real bugs. Not sure if Opus deserves mention alone. Even open models have found many.

What I mean by "nothing special" is 1 year from now you will say it is an extremely limited model compared to whatever is out then

This is what happens when you have growth that is exponential instead of linear!

But then in the second portion of your comment you seem to be implying that it's all hype and nothing to worry about.

Just because something more powerful will be out in a year, doesn't mean we shouldn't worry about the one arriving in 6 months.

If you have no vulnerabilities in your code you have nothing to worry about

I'm so tired of the astroturfing from Anthropic literally everywhere. Every single forum, every single thread anywhere on the internet is filled with their bots muddying up the conversation, it's so tiring.

Where is the astroturfing? From what I can tell it’s maybe the fastest growing product/company ever. Anthropic’s products have completely changed how software development gets done across the entire industry, especially in the past four months. The level of hype seems entirely justified to me (and I say this as an OpenAI Codex user).

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