Anthropic's months of interpretability compute mocked as "random junk" in viral AI-circle debate
aiamblichus · x · 2026-09-24
A viral exchange mocks Anthropic's interpretability research: atfome claims the lab spent months and exorbitant compute producing "random junk that might do something, without the faintest clue of its function — even a grad student would be embarrassed," with aiamblichus calling it "pure comedy." A pointed industry debate over the value of frontier-lab interpretability work.
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