Re: Anthropic's Mythos and Project Glasswing

Rob,
That is exactly my point. They set up a legal "protection" for something, in this case especially visible in the case of "intellectual property", then some abuser finds a way to co-opt it, so they have to add another layer to the legalese to cover that, repeat ad infinitum.

So IP is a "legal fiction" that calls something "property". My computer is my (physical) property, and only one person can possess it. IP is infinitely reproducible. Court cases on it often involve minutia, as in the case of my friend.

In the real world the first one to apply an idea, or discover something, is the one that gets the firstfruits, like a "pet rock" thing. Imagine the legal whirlwind if you apply the patent regime to food recipes. The only reason the courts knocked that down was because of the massive entanglements and arguing over just how many cups difference in a recpe would take over the courts.

On 04/09/2026 9:17 AM EDT Rob Berendt <robertowenberendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Infordado,
Sometimes strange patents like state codes for states are done to protect
people and not some corporation. I'll give you an example from EDI.
Someone finally got a patent/copyright/trademark/whatever for a trucking
company that was never a trucking company. Seems like everytime the
industry got used to using a name like BESTWAY to mean "use whomever you
feel is the best way to ship this" some <expletive deleted> would start up
a company and name it BESTWAY. They finally had to register a name for
this intention.

On Wed, Apr 8, 2026 at 4:38 PM Infodorado InfoDorado via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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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