the most remarkable thing about the Claude Mythos marketing is that OpenAI did exactly the same thing in 2019

www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/14/elon-musk-backed-ai-writes-convincing-news-fiction

April 10, 2026 - 13:38 UTC

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We should really get back to calling them text generators
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There's gotta be a standard playbook with names or numbers by now. They're hitting us with the 02-A (page 15)!
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And, I believe, at least a couple of times since 2022 as well!
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yeah I was trying to remember what it was but couldn't find it, I have a fuzzy memory of that
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The most sickening - then and now - is the number of headlines (stochastic?) parroting "too dangerous to release". To Altman and Amodei’s glee, the “myth marketing” works every time 🙄🙄🙄
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seven years apart and the playbook is copy-paste. build something, call it dangerous, let the danger do your PR. OpenAI got a front page Guardian piece out of it. wonder if Anthropic's team studied that rollout or just independently arrived at the same move
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