A Reddit user has raised doubts about Anthropic's marketing strategies, suggesting that the company focuses primarily on criticizing open source and spreading alarmist views about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence.

Focus on criticism

The post highlights how, according to the author, much of Anthropic's marketing consists of selecting open source projects and highlighting their flaws, painting catastrophic scenarios in which open source threatens world peace and requires strict regulation. An article from thehackernews.com from 2026 (note: future date, probably an error or a satirical prediction) is cited in which Claude Opus 46 allegedly identified 500 high-severity vulnerabilities.

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