Users Suspect Anthropic's New Model Mythos Was Trained on CAPTCHAs
voooooogel · x · 2026-09-11
Users noticed that Anthropic's new model Mythos gets remarkably "enthusiastic" when solving CAPTCHAs, producing outputs loaded with exclamation marks—prompting jokes that it might have been trained on CAPTCHA data, citing the in-community meme "models can get used to anything in two megatokens".
The speculation remains unconfirmed, but the observed behavioral quirk (unusually invested tone) amused many.
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