Critique of Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview System Card: Inefficient Documentation and Superficial Risk Assessment
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Summary
The article critiques Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview system card, a 244-page document that the author finds inefficient and lacking in substantive risk assessment. The author notes that only 7 pages are devoted to explaining why the model is too dangerous to release, and that the document could be compressed from 23MB to 3MB without losing meaningful content. The critique highlights the absence of technical terms like 'fuzzer' in the risk assessment section, suggesting superficial analysis of potential dangers.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledI pulled the system card, a whoppingly inefficient 244-page document that devotes just seven pages to the claim that the model is too dangerous to release.
In fact, the 23MB of PDF I had to download was 20MB of wasted time and space. Compressing the PDF to 3MB meant I lost exactly nothing.
Spoiler alert: the crucial seven pages out of 244 do not contain the word 'fuzzer' once. That's like a seven page vacation brochure for Hawaii that leaves out the word beaches
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