More than killer AI I'm afraid of Anthropic/OpenAI going into full rent-seeking mode so that everyone working in tech is forced to fork out loads of money just to stay competitive on the market. These companies can also choose to give exclusive access to hand picked individuals and cut everyone else off and there would be nothing to stop them.

This is already happening to some degree, GPT 5.3 Codex's security capabilities were given exclusively to those who were approved for a "Trusted Access" programme.

> I get the security aspect, but if we've hit that point any reasonably sophisticated model past this point will be able to do the damage they claim it can do. They might as well be telling us they're closing up shop for consumer models.

I read it like I always read the GPT-2 announcement no matter what others say: It's *not* being called "too dangerous to ever release", but rather "we need to be mindful, knowing perfectly well that other AI companies can replicate this imminently".

The important corps (so presumably including the Linux Foundation, bigger banks and power stations, and quite possibly excluding x.com) will get access now, and some other LLM which is just as capable will give it to everyone in 3 months time at which point there's no benefit to Anthropic keeping it off-limits.

This is my nightmare about AI; not that the machines will kill all the humans, but that access is preferentially granted to the powerful and it's used to maintain the current power structure in blatant disregard of our democratic and meritocratic ideals, probably using "security" as the justification (as usual).

> They should just say they'll never release a model of this caliber to the public at this point and say out loud we'll only get gimped versions.

That’s not going to happen. If you recall, OpenAI didn’t release a model a few years ago because they felt it was too dangerous.

Anthropic is giving the industry a heads up and time to patch their software.

They said there are exploitable vulnerabilities in every major operating system.

But in 6 months every frontier model will be able to do the same things. So Anthropic doesn’t have the luxury of not shipping their best models. But they also have to be responsible as well.

I think they already said somewhere that they can't release Mythos because it requires absurdly large amounts of compute. The economics of releasing it just don't work.

This is why the EAs, and their almost comic-book-villain projects like "control AI dot com" cannot be allowed to win. One private company gatekeeping access to revolutionary technology is riskier than any consequence of the technology itself.

> A jump that we will never be able to use since we're not part of the seemingly minimum 100 billion dollar company club as requirement to be allowed to use it.

> They should just say they'll never release a model of this caliber to the public at this point and say out loud we'll only get gimped

Duh, this was fucking obvious from the start. The only people saying otherwise were zealots who needed a quick line to dismiss legitimate concerns.