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Models2026-06-29 · source-backed

Matthew Berman calls out the Mythos safety messaging as theater.

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Berman points at the contradiction: Mythos is framed as too dangerous to release for cyber, yet reportedly failed to detect roughly 20,000 fraudulent Chinese-linked accounts that racked up millions of interactions. Steven Sinofsky flagged the same misalignment. I don't know the full story behind those fraud numbers, and I'd verify them before repeating them as fact, but the underlying skepticism is healthy. "Too dangerous to ship" and "couldn't catch basic fraud" are hard to hold at the same time.


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