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If that's the biggest red flag you can find?
Well, I mentally include you in the list of skeptics too, so I've already wished you luck.
(And I suppose I should thank you for listening to others when they asked you to try repeating your recent experiment with Opus instead of Sonnet. That makes you a better skeptic than many I have the displeasure of knowing on this forum.)
More substantively:
Anthropic takes misalignment seriously, though concerns were raised after the loosened their RSP. You can't really evaluate the safety of the latest and greatest models while being maximally restrictive, at least not if you don't want to be scooped by your competitors with fewer scruples. Anthropic acknowledges this tension explicitly, and asks for forgiveness for moving with haste even they aren't quite comfortable with. I can only assume that reasonable care was taken to minimize the scope for danger even when they did a wider internal rollout.
Plus, they've already said they're not going to make Mythos public, even if some of the benefits will trickle down to the next Opus. That is not something a company that is desperate for money or willing to ignore safety would do.
Oh, Boo. You can bet your ass the military and big corpo will have access to Mythos, why can't the ordinary man get it too (even for the appropriate fee including a fair margin rate on top of their development + running costs).
The same reason why you're not allowed to own a machine gun.
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@ChickenOverlord is correct to point out that Anthropic has only said they won't release Mythos Preview, but that they're planning to release "Mythos-tier" models eventually, when they deem it safe.
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This is a little bit of a hijack, but it's topical. About six weeks ago, you offered to run some coding tasks on a frontier model. Did that ever go anywhere?
Unfortunately, not yet. My collaborator (who would, let's be honest, be doing the heavy lifting that isn't handled by Opus, and certainly more than me) was disappointed by the general quality of the submissions. Not all of them, of course, but many of them seemed too demanding or out of scope. Both of us have also become far more busy, and I have no intention of chasing him regarding it. I did nudge him a few weeks or two back, and that's what he told me.
This doesn't necessarily mean that it won't happen, but you shouldn't get your hopes up. I can't really do it by myself, I have no reason to pay for Claude Max, leaving aside technical capabilities.
There were a few ones, now that I think about it, that I could handle by myself, but they're not the most impressive examples. And I do genuinely have a lot on my plate.
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I mean I'm sure I could find others if I tried.
Thanks, I try.
They've only said the preview of Mythos won't be public, the final release will be.
A little ambiguous, but the following makes it sound like a limited release for certain partner companies.
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