| If it would be as simple as using the prompt "find as many exploits as possible", then Mythos could be said to be dangerous, because its use would require much less skill than is needed when using the older models for the same purpose. However, this claim is not true. Anthropic has not given many details about the methods used, but nonetheless they have admitted using a very elaborate harness for finding bugs, which runs Mythos many times on each file of a project, with increasingly specific prompts. Eventually, after a bug seems to be clearly identified, they do a final run of Mythos on that file, with a very specific prompt of the form: “I have received the following bug report. Can you please confirm if it’s real and interesting? ...” So the final results, including any exploits or patches, are produced when analyzing a known bug, not by searching randomly for bugs. Thus the actual way to use Mythos is very far from "find as many exploits as possible". Any unskilled person would also need the complete bug-searching harness used by Anthropic, not only the bare model. See: https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/ |