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Anthropic Unveils ‘Claude Mythos’ – A Cybersecurity Breakthrough That Could Also Supercharge Attacks (www.securityweek.com)

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[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

According to your POV here, companies can claim whatever and it's my job now to figure out if they are lying or to what extent.

No, the actual claims here, that describe specific bugs in specific software, can be evaluated. Even without whipping out a test environment to try to reproduce the results with your own proof of concept, you can read the text and evaluate whether the claims make sense on their face.

a broken clock is never right, reality momentarily aligns with it, which is a completely different thing

And that's why the substance of a statement matters. I don't believe in the supernatural, so if someone says "I'm a psychic and the missing girl on the news is in a shed near the water," that doesn't register with me at all. But if that person says "I'm a psychic and the missing girl is in a shed at 1234 Main Street" that raises eyebrows because it is easily falsifiable. And if the person says "I'm a psychic and the missing girl is in a shed, so I looked and found her and reported it to the cops, and here's a cryptographic hash of my description of how I found her, which I'll publish once the cops confirm she's safe" that's gonna be a much more serious statement. Even if I don't believe that the person actually is a psychic, I can pay attention to how the whole thing played out because the person claims serious non-psychic validation of the results, and the results themselves are important entirely externally from the claim of whether psychics have powers.

This is a story about several cybersecurity vulnerabilities, some of which sound medium or high severity in very commonly used software. That's important in itself, outside of AI mattering at all. And if they claim to have the receipts in a falsifiable way, that's the kind of thing that shows a high degree of confidence in the genuineness of what was found.

I don't give a shit about AI and I'm generally a skeptic of the future of any of these AI companies. But if someone uses AI tools to discover something new in the subjects that I do care about, like cybersecurity, then I'll pay attention to the results and what they publish in that field.