Re: Anthropic's Mythos and Project Glasswing

All the hullabaloo about AI is largely smokescreen for "Danger, Will Robinson!" The movie screen version of AI is a transparent attempt to get used to thinking that algorithms actually have a sentient life of their own. You got the robot that fell in love and was remade to age in one, haha, and in a Brit series you had robots all over that suddenly all became self-aware and quit slaving for their owners, and they got humans who defended their "human rights". Let loose your belly laugh now.

When 4GL was the rage, writing generating read-add-update-print loops was quick and simple, but that didn't last long because there are too many twists and turns and exception values to code for, and so on.

But they made 4GL more sophisticated now: AI. BUT too many black-box applications, hello?! Trust a company to check itself? No, thanks! Remember the scientific method? It's rigorous for a reason. You want trust? How can we trust, after all the stolen elections of history, five days of counting past the deadline to flip the winner, and so on.

It's time to stop fooling ourselves. Unleash our brains from the chains of patents and copyright!

A tech at a U.S. copier maker once complained to me about the new wave of Japanese copiers. Change just one little thing, he said, and voilà, they get a totally new patent! TESLA got robbed by the patent office: they nullified his patent on radio and gave to Marconi (cheaper) and after they squeezed the first juice out of it they returned it to Tesla. The big guys like IBM and Apple and Microsoft, they build big patent bundles and trade agreements with the other big guys. Ever see the patent Microsoft got for matching country codes with countries they match to? :) Hahaha.


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On 04/08/2026 9:34 AM EDT Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I noticed that IBM isn't on this list:
https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing

Which is a bit concerning given what's detailed here:
https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/

Granted, I suppose IBM i and z/OS aren't particularly in danger from Mythos
as they are closed source. But IBM has enough hands in Open Source
projects that I would have expected them to be involved.

Perhaps they are involved, and just got left off the list.

Charles
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