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The fact that they gave them access itself should make us maybe a little bit suspect, but it basically just showed like normal progression, no massive leap.
Model by model gets a little bit better on some of these tests and benchmarks, and Mythos has no out-of-scale leap.
It's just like on some, it's about the same.
On some, it's a little bit better.
And yet it got covered as if we had just turned on Whopper from the movie War Games.
Like we had just some new entity that was like on its own undermining security.
And I do not think that โ I think that was highly credulous coverage of what almost certainly is just like a standard slight jagged move forward on these various capabilities that we've been seeing for the last three years.
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Can I say why I'm upset at AISI?
I talked about them on my- Two weeks ago, I did a, or through, I don't know when this is coming out, but I did a podcast in whenever, March, where I looked at this report, and mainly I looked at the Guardian's coverage of this report done by AISI, but it was just the most inane thing.
The headline was, massive increase in AI scheming is detected.
And they had a chart- God damn it.
And bad line went up and it went up in like January and it goes up.
And if you read this article about this study, they're like, something's going on.
Scheming has been increasing rapidly recently.
And they like gave some examples of it or whatever.
And so I look at this, like, I want to look at what is going on here.