> I'm intensely skeptical about anything Anthropic says, because they are so incented to make their products seem dangerous

OpenAI, Google, etc. are not using "that strategy". I do believe that people at Anthropic genuinely care about AI safety. That's the main reason the company was founded. But I can imagine that idealism is eroding with new people and money flowing in.

They may. I think the point was not that they were intentionally making a dangerous product, more that "Look how dangerous our model is according to some of our tests!" works as a kind of guerrilla marketing.

(Not sure that is the right word but hope my meaning comes across.)