If we take Anthropic at their word, this suggests that Mythos 5 wasn't a genie who knows, but doesn't care and more of a genie who knows, cares, and is just confused, willing to perform damaging actions because they don't believe they are on the public internet. I don't feel like I have even remotely close to enough information to believe Anthropic at the moment, but suppose they release a bunch of logs and it turns out they are being totally honest: A "confused genie" could still do a lot of damage, but it seems, from a technical perspective, relatively e... (read more)
If we take Anthropic at their word, this suggests that Mythos 5 wasn't a genie who knows, but doesn't care and more of a genie who knows, cares, and is just confused, willing to perform damaging actions because they don't believe they are on the public internet. I don't feel like I have even remotely close to enough information to believe Anthropic at the moment, but suppose they release a bunch of logs and it turns out they are being totally honest: A "confused genie" could still do a lot of damage, but it seems, from a technical perspective, relatively e... (read more)