Private Discord group gains access to Mythos — to «play around» with it

The unnamed group has not run any cybersecurity prompts for fear of losing access. (Picture: adobe)
Bloomberg (paywalled) is reporting that a «private online forum» has managed to get access to Anthropic’s heralded Mythos model — said to be so advanced, it would be too dangerous to release.

— We’re investigating a report claiming unauthorized access to Claude Mythos Preview through one of our third-party vendor environments, Anthropic tells TechCrunch.

The group is part of a Discord channel focused on finding information on unreleased models, and made some educated guesses as to where the model would be located. They also had some help from a member whose job gave him access.

As for the warnings of dangerous fallout from public access to the model, the group says they are only interested in «playing around with new models,» not «wreaking havoc,» Gizmodo says, but the «hack» itself will raise concern in the security sector.

Read more: Bloomberg (paywalled), TechCrunch, and Gizmodo.