Ffmpeg confirmed on Twitter that they sent the patches.

Although, they also said, "Because the patches appear to be written by humans".

"Mythos writes code like a human" incoming

The patches could have been written by humans, it doesn't matter that much. Or written by a clanker and polished by engineers. The difficult part is usually not in writing the patches that fix such vulnerabilities, but in finding the vulnerabilities. And these days it's even harder to exploit them, since you need to bypass modern hardening features.

What would be the product they're marketing by this campaign?

You don't market products, you market lifestyles/interests. Sell the sizzle, not the steak etc.

For Anthropic it's "we own the big scary models, the AI security space, but it's ok we're responsible"

For the partners it's "we're the Big Boys here and will look after your enterprise needs"

None of it needs any more than anecdata and some nice, pre-approved, quotes.

Every organisation does it.

The product they launched?

just because _we_ don't have access does not mean anthropic's not getting paid

The product is being provided to some of the most influential companies. That can definitely serve to Anthropic's advantage. (Regardless, I suspect the hype is real.)

Imagine you were making purchasing decisions about which LLM-based coding tool to use.

If one of the possible vendors convinces you that that they have a next gen model that is so powerful it found 20+ year old bugs in a hardened operating system, that would undoubtedly have an influence on your decision even if you are only buying the current model.

That's pretty disingenuous, bordering on ridiculous.

Do they have a record of lying to you? No.

Go read the system card. It's a lot more tame than you think, peoples are taking pieces out of this and hyping it. Doesn't mean it's not valid.