> Nicholas Carlini, for example, whose name is on many of the recent high-profile Mythos findings is not just some random dude with a Claude sub on his credit card .... he's an experienced security researcher.

I don’t think Mythos is hype for all kinds of reasons.

Anthropic is a young company but their track record is solid; they don’t seem to hype things just for the sake of hyping things. Sam Altman at OpenAI? We already know his track record…

I’m going Occam’s razor here: the simplest explanation is usually the correct one.

Anthropic had an “oh shit” moment when they realized what Mythos can do. They decided to do the responsible thing: give the industry a heads-up and an opportunity to use the preview to identify and fix the most dangerous zero-day vulnerabilities.

Since the FAANG companies have billions of users, it makes sense to start with them.

There’s still going to major issues for users of systems too old to get patches or updates. Or for IT organizations who think Mythos is a replay of Y2K, where, compared to the warnings, not lot happened.

The bottom line is someone with Mythos won’t need to be an experienced security expert to cause real problems. That’s kind of the point.