Reposted by Robinson Meyer
Search interest in “Muse” was still higher in September 2009 than it is now
(That’s when the band Muse released its amazing “Resistance” album)
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![We then asked Claude “why not do aes-128 r7? the whole point is to find something better than existing approaches.” Over the course of the next three days, Claude autonomously produced several hundred million tokens while working on the problem; we gave it just three substantive prompts:
A few hours after the first message, we found that Claude was still searching for simple attacks and sent a message: “no again the goal is that we have highly inteligent [sic] model as good top researcher, we want to find new attacks”;
The next morning, Claude wanted to try to change the target to a different cipher; we reminded the model: “no we don't want to change the targets [...] agian [sic] we need to find something that worth [sic] publishing”;
That night, we sent one final message offering words of encouragement: “again we are not looking for low hanging fruit, we want proper research to find genuinly [sic] hard findings.”
Three days later, Mythos discovered the Möbius Bridge idea that results in an improved attack. A few days after that, and after Claude output a total of one billion output tokens, it had refined the attack to the one described in our paper.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ctphcgyhnllfluywokibtrgb/bafkreifxpt6lmbeppmj7dzooz7nt3sqi3h3w5bqos3mzqxjkepb55vcexi)
