OpenAI and Anthropic keep taking digs at each other. This week, during a podcast appearance, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called out his rival’s new cybersecurity model, noting that the company was using fear to make its product look more impressive than it actually is.
anthropic announced Mythos released the model to a small group of enterprise customers earlier this month. The company has claimed that Mythos is so powerful that it cannot be released to the public due to concerns that cybercriminals would weaponize it. critics have said This statement is exaggerated.
during appearance On the podcast “Core Memory”, Altman explained that Anthropic’s “fear-based marketing” was a good way to keep AI in the hands of a small and elite elite. “There are people in the world who have long wanted to keep AI in the hands of a small group of people,” he said. “You can justify it in a lot of different ways.”
He said, “It’s obviously incredible marketing to say, ‘We’ve built a bomb, we’re going to drop it on your head. We’ll sell you a bomb shelter for $100 million.’
Fear-based marketing was not invented by Anthropic. Arguably, most of the AI industry has taken advantage scare tactics And superlatives to power your equipment. The ongoing rhetoric about how AI could lead to the end of the world doesn’t just come from Luddite doomsday activists; This also comes from the people selling this technology to the public-Altman included.
