Did anyone read the blogpost? They did publish a pre-print:

  > Our work to understand the primary function of ARTs is ongoing. However, we think it is important to share such findings early, both to demonstrate Claude’s capabilities and to give the broader community insight into what we’re working on. We have released a pre-print (here) that discusses this in more detail.

I just looked at it. I really hope they're not thinking of sending that to an actual bioinformatics, computational biology or molecular biology journal! So embarrassing...

(I love how Anthropic boast about building a lab, but don't seem to realise that you have to test your hypothesis in the lab! Right now, all their "spectacular" assertions are untested and unproven.)

I realise that this will only improve from here, but gods Anthropic has no idea about the biological sciences right now.

I don't recall that being there when I first read their post a few hours ago... No way to confirm, sadly, as they've posted it to their own domain

What's with all this pre-print business. It became very prevalent during covid, where it felt like every week some new pre-print was published that discusses some new aspect of the virus. These papers would then be used in arguments and put forward as proof of whatever claim the arguer was making.

Every man and his dog can publish a pre-print and in my opinion it's academically worthless.

Just going to post this. And I think it's safe to say that no, they didn't read it.