Early claims that Amazon unilaterally flagged Claude jailbreaks to the Commerce Department have been corrected by commentators, who tie the episode instead to ongoing joint vulnerability testing under Project Glasswing, with Anthropic framing the surfaced issues as already-known minor bugs rather than fresh exploits.
Wait - so Amazon, one of Anthropic’s biggest investors, allegedly jailbroke Claude and then snitched to the U.S. government?
This cant be real. What.
Wall Street Journal is reporting that Amazon reported the jailbreaks to the Department of Commerce, who instituted the ban
Researchers from the cloud giant ran prompts that surfaced a small set of known weaknesses during shared defensive work, not as an independent escalation that directly triggered the export-control directive.
Anthropic has disabled the affected models for compliance and is working with AWS to restore availability, though the exact scope of remaining restrictions and timing remain open.
Many users accused Amazon of backstabbing Anthropic by reporting Claude jailbreaks to authorities, fearing arbitrary bans and model insecurity driven by hype or control, while a few called the testing prudent.
What if Amazon got Mythos banned because they are spending too much on Claude and didn't want to be the ones to tell their employees no more Mythos lol
Wall Street Journal is reporting that Amazon reported the jailbreaks to the Department of Commerce, who instituted the ban
@Teknium Lmao
What if Amazon got Mythos banned because they are spending too much on Claude and didn't want to be the ones to tell their employees no more Mythos lol
@MayaStone420 how why would the US government do marketing for anthropic?
Ask a partner to jailbreak the model, possibly even by giving them specific instructions. The partner jailbreaks it and reports the issue to officials. The officials ban the model.
The banned model gets hyped. Public interest increases, and everyone starts talking about it. A couple of days later, they say the officials were wrong. Pre-IPO hype increases 10x.
End result: they make more money.
Just a theory
@koltregaskes How would you call it otherwise?
@kimmonismus It's all marketing
@kimmonismus They didn't snitch, I believe.
I'm just giving what I read in the reports. Researchers from Amazon were testing the model, but no confirmed news it was Amazon themselves that reported it to the government. There is no confirmation the "another company" = Amazon. Let's wait for the news before jumping to conclusions. I prefer facts.
@kimmonismus They found the jailbreak but another firm reported it apparently.
@Teknium I believe it’s a marketing stunt. No doubt this is overturned in days or weeks max
@kimmonismus At the same time, I am glad that this happened, but at the same time, not.
Fable was an amazing model, but sadly, if Amazon could jailbreak it, then any other person could, and they could potentially exploit it to the max with its capabilities.
@kimmonismus i posted this "cynical take" earlier:
@kimmonismus It's probably @elder_plinius
@Teknium Hahahahaa god 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
@kimmonismus @grok sounds like corporate warfare Antrophic still a competitor, and is actually the fastest growing company in history!
@ns123abc The community note was removed ?
@iamJonasB @woot_woot26 The note is correct
@Shoier__ what WSJ article?
@kimmonismus Def fake.
@ns123abc @woot_woot26 It says not shown on X
