Comment by Hamdi Malik

While Anthropic detected and investigated these activities because the actors used its closed-weight model subject to the company’s safety guardrails and misuse monitoring, allowing Anthropic to terminate access, these reports also provide a window into how Iran may be deploying open-weight AI models, designed with greater end-user flexibility and less oversight. […] With these offline models, the user’s interactions cannot be monitored by the AI company and access cannot be remotely revoked—standard safety features regularly deployed by AI companies to prevent misuse of closed-weight models.