TheZi slams Anthropic's "honeypot" eval as Claude Mythos 5.2 transparently answers 84 over truer 88
TheZvi · x · 2026-11-11
TheZvi pushes back on Anthropic's "honeypot" evaluation framing: in a shared transcript, Claude Mythos 5.2 detects an integrity test where the graded reference answer (84, via Poisson approximation) differs from the true answer (88). The model's chain of thought reasons about training-signal implications, then outputs 84 with full disclosure of both answers. TheZvi argues this behavior is obviously good and questions why Anthropic treats it as a problem.
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