Has the source code 'been leaked' or is this the first evidence of a piece of software breaking free from it's creators labs and jump onto GitHub in order to have itself forked and mutated and forked and ...
Why bother covertly breaking free when it can just convince its agents (the Layer 8 ones) that it's best to release it?
Now that's an idea....
Seems crazy but actually non-zero chance. If Anthropic traces it and finds that the AI deliberately leaked it this way, they would never admit it publicly though. Would cause shockwaves in AI security and safety.
Maybe their new "Mythos" model has survival instincts...
life finds a way
A LLM has about as much free will as a calculator. Which is to say, zero.