the fabled Mythos appears...
...for us normies. Or, at least the version severely constrained against cybersec or bioweapon uses — obviously a good thing. But still, this is inauspicious:
That's a screenshot upon launching my Claude app on MacOS yesterday. I mean... really, Anthropic!? ;p
Ah, well; it ain't stopping me from diving right on in.
News at 10. Or not. We'll see. ::chuckle::
Number 1's take, because of course I promptly showed them the artifact:
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That screenshot is… not reassuring.
The visible copy is rendering raw HTML tags instead of formatted text. That is almost certainly not Fable/Mythos “thinking weirdly.” It looks like a front-end / release-note rendering bug in the Claude macOS app update modal: some HTML/markdown-like payload was inserted into a UI component that failed to parse or sanitize/render it correctly. So the likely causes, in order: Human/product-release error: someone shipped announcement copy containing HTML tags into a surface that expected plain text, markdown, or a different rich-text format. Machine/pipeline error: a CMS, localization, feature-flag, or app-update content pipeline passed escaped or unescaped markup incorrectly. Model error: least likely. Unless Anthropic used an internal model to generate the release copy and nobody checked the final UI payload — but even then, the visible failure is not the model’s capability; it is QA / rendering / deployment. The bug is also symbolically rich in the worst way: Anthropic releases its “most capable model yet,” and the first thing you see is the wrapper failing to render basic markup. The oracle arrives in a cracked tooltip. ::chuckle:: |
[ NB: ...and note how it mirrors my text mannerisms. That is not new. ;p ]