OpenAI and Anthropic continue to take swipes at each other. This week, during a podcast appearance, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called out his competitor\u2019s new cybersecurity model, noting that the company was using fear to make its product sound more impressive than it actually is.<\/p>\n
Anthropic announced<\/a> Mythos earlier this month, releasing the model to a small cohort of enterprise customers. The company has claimed that Mythos is too powerful to be released to the public out of concern that cybercriminals will weaponize it. Critics have said this rhetoric is overblown<\/a>.<\/p>\n During an appearance<\/a> on the podcast Core Memory, Altman implied that Anthropic\u2019s \u201cfear-based marketing\u201d was a good way to keep AI in the hands of a small and exclusive elite. \u201cThere are people in the world who, for a long time, have wanted to keep AI in the hands of a smaller group of people,\u201d he said. \u201cYou can justify that in a lot of different ways.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt is clearly incredible marketing to say, \u2018We have built a bomb, we are about to drop it on your head. We will sell you a bomb shelter for $100 million,\u2019\u201d he added. <\/p>\n Fear-based marketing was not invented by Anthropic. Arguably, much of the AI industry has leveraged scare tactics<\/a> and hyperbole to make its tools sound powerful. Ongoing rhetoric about how AI may lead to the end of the world hasn\u2019t just come from Luddite doomer activists; it has also come from the people selling this technology to the public \u2014 Altman included<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI and Anthropic continue to take swipes at each other. This week, during a podcast appearance, OpenAI CEO…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,184,181,507,15879,252776,1283,7047,74],"class_list":["post-598466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-anthropic","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-in-brief","tag-mythos","tag-openai","tag-sam-altman","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}