If I were a Bank or a State CTO...

So Mythos and Sol come around, and they are weapons of mass destruction in the hands of civilians. At least, that’s what Anthropic tried to say, when they delayed its release to civilians — a brilliant marketing move on the heels of OpenAI back-talking to Pentagon to force them out of the US government market. Despite this being a very extremist viewpoint, I actually believe it. Three years ago, if you wanted to launch a cyber-attack, you would need to be able to hire one of the black-hats available on the market. There aren’t that many of them, and they are not necessarily cheap (I hope, at least). If that knowledge is now available for everyone in LLM models, and with enough money you can run agents in the cloud, launching cyber-attacks with just two ingredients: money for compute and tokens, and a simple prompt. LLMs are having the unfortunate effect of making the richer (Nvidia, OpenAI, Microsoft, …) even richer. Whoever has the money to buy infrastructure will reap its benefits…