Claude Mythos: the AI hacking model too good to release! Allegedly – Pivot to AI
This week’s hype is the new model from Anthropic — Claude Mythos! It’s fine tuned for computer code. Specifically, finding security holes. Anthropic’s not releasing Mythos. It’s too powerful for th…
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From my perspective, this is nothing more than hype marketing, because "Our product is too good to release it yet" is something I have seen many times before.
For instance, back before the release of the PlayStation 2 (!!!), it was claimed that the high-performance Emotion Engine in the PS2 could be used for weapons guidance systems. - Source
It is also interesting—and enlightening—that the same security exploits could be found using smaller (and cheaper) open-source models.
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Anthropic’s not releasing Mythos. It’s too powerful for the public!
the secret sauce is AGI — A Guy Instead.
Anthropic’s new Mythos model is not the magic here — Aisle found the same bugs that Anthropic listed but using “small, cheap, open-weights models.”
pivot-to-ai.com Created: April 23, 2026 Updated: April 23, 2026 article