Why Anthropic and everyone else ‘scared’ of the company’s latest AI model Mythos are ‘wrong,’ says one of the world’s biggest hackers

George Hotz, the first person to ever unlock an iPhone, has a message for everyone panicking about Anthropic’s new AI model Mythos: calm down. In a LinkedIn post, Hotz—who famously cracked Sony’s PlayStation 3 and now runs self-driving car startup comma.ai—said he could find zero-days cheaper and faster than Mythos if not for bug bounty restrictions. His offer: one zero-day a day until a major new model drops, just to prove a point. “These things are not that hard to find in most software,” he wrote, taking direct aim at Anthropic’s claim that Mythos finding a 27-year-old OpenBSD bug and exploiting FreeBSD’s NFS server for root access represents a watershed moment in cybersecurity.

The ‘it’s not incentivised, not impossible’ argument