Claude Mythos: 'It's a PR Scam' – Ed Zitron [video]

They're definitely fishing for some kind of "security" level contract by going to these businesses. It's akin to big pharma sending the breasty blondes to hawk brand names to hospital admins. They're likely looking for the naive ceos who've got not idea you can run opencode or openclaw and just loop through repos looking for issues by giving it various hints about common flaws.

Hopefully one of those CEOs is smart enough to accept the testing, then see how easy it is to find it's propritary code in the output.

Zitron is fun to listen to but he's so far on one side of the debate that it's hard to take his stances seriously. E.g. "PR scam" also known as marketing. I can't really fault them for the stunt.

I think the real point to hammer on is that Anthropic can't actually afford to give the masses the model because it's too expensive. The actual 'scam' is that we get frontier models that degrade over time because they water down their capabilities after launch in order to manipulate the hype cycle. Yet we pay the same amount every month.

I think that's honestly best case