Sam Altman throws shade at Anthropic’s cyber model, Mythos: ‘fear-based marketing’
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman criticized Anthropic's Mythos model, labeling the company's security concerns as a strategic form of fear-based marketing.Summary
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently criticized Anthropic's new cybersecurity AI model, Mythos, during a podcast appearance. Anthropic has restricted public access to Mythos, claiming it is too dangerous to release. Altman characterized this approach as "fear-based marketing," arguing that the company is leveraging alarmism to justify keeping AI technology within an exclusive, elite group rather than making it widely accessible. While Altman critiqued Anthropic, the article notes that the broader AI industry, including OpenAI, has frequently used hyperbolic rhetoric about potential AI catastrophes to frame their own products as essential or powerful.
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