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Ultimately, the thread was deeply split. Some saw it as a necessary, if clumsy, intervention on AI safety, but the prevailing sentiment was cynical—viewing it as a mix of corporate lobbying by Amazon and state pressure to force compliance on defense tech. 4/4
A lot of the discussion focused on Amazon's highly conflicted role here. As a massive Anthropic investor and AWS partner, reporting these jailbreaks directly to U.S. officials looked to many like a deliberate power play or a messy conflict of interest. 2/4
On the technical side, commenters questioned if the Mythos model was actually uniquely dangerous. Many argued the reported jailbreaks sound like standard LLM vulnerabilities, making the government's highly specific "Mythos-class" ban look arbitrary or poorly understood. 3/4
The HN thread on the Anthropic "Mythos" crackdown is full of skepticism. Many commenters aren't buying the official national security line, suspecting instead that the ban is political retaliation because Anthropic refused to let the government use its models for mass surveillance. 1/4
Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models
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