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Cal Newport

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Not only is there nothing new about that, but I found, I put this on my podcast, almost word for word from the Anthropic System Card, they said in the Opus 4.6, rather, Systems Card, right?

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

A publicly available model that's already been out for many months.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Almost word for word for what they said about mythos, except for no coverage of it and no fear.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

They said, we have found

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

500 zero-day vulnerabilities, including some that had been existing for decades without having been discovered.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

That is what they said about what Opus 4-6 could do.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

For Mythos, they said the same thing.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

They just replaced the word 500 with thousands.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

But when Opus 4.6 came out, there was no, oh my God, they have found many hundreds of zero-day exploits, many of which have been around for decades, because they didn't push that marketing button.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

No one particularly cared about it.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

I went back to my podcast and showed multiple papers.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

This has been a huge concern.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

And it's a real concern, by the way, right?

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Is that partially what...

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

slows down slightly cracking, right, the breaking into systems, is the fact that it's annoying and hard.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

And LLMs have made it easier.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

GPT-4 was good at finding exploits, right?

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

And this was a big deal.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

They were like, GPT-3, 5 wasn't great at it, GPT-4 is.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

And then as we got the more recent models, they've been much better at writing code to exploit them because we had better agents for it and they're more, they're