alt Hacker News> "We are releasing Opus 4.7 with safeguards that automatically detect and block requests that indicate prohibited or high-risk cybersecurity uses. "
This decision is potentially fatal. You need symmetric capability to research and prevent attacks in the first place.
The opposite approach is 'merely' fraught.
They're in a bit of a bind here.
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Now we have to trick the models when you legitimately work in the security space.
I am absolutely moving off them if this continues to be the case.
Only software approved by Anthropic (and/or the USG) is allowed to be secure in this brave new era.
Questions about "fatality" aside, where do you see asymmetry here?
Oh don't worry. They have Mythos and the extremely dystopian-named "helpful only" series which is internal only and can do all the things.
I agree with you here. I think this is for product placement for Mythos.