Zach Stein-Perlman's recent quick take is confusing. It just seems like an assertion, followed by condemnation of Anthropic conditioned on us accepting his assertion blindly as true.
It is definitely the case that "insider threat from a compute provider" is a key part of Anthropic's threat model! They routinely talk about it in formal and informal settings! So what precisely is his threat model here that he thinks they're not defending adequately against?
(He has me blocked from commenting on his posts for some reason, which is absolutely his right, but insofar as he hasn't blocked me from seeing his posts, I wanted to explicitly register in public my objection to this sort of low-quality argument.)
By the "whitepaper," are you referring to the RSP v2.2 that Zach linked to, or something else?
No, I am referring to this, which Zach linked in his shortform: https://assets.anthropic.com/m/c52125297b85a42/original/Confidential_Inference_Paper.pdf
Also, just to cut a little more to brass tacks here, can you describe the specific threat model that you think they are insufficiently responding to? By that, I don't mean just the threat actor (insiders within their compute provider) and their objective to get weights, but rather the specific class or ... (read more)