Public reaction on the ClaudeAI subreddit appears to be split into roughly three camps. The majority see the story as an indictment of the government's cybersecurity, citing its inability to hire the required level of talent and its history of leaks. A second large group is skeptical of the claim, considering it sensationalist or even an Anthropic marketing stunt.

And once models get good at that, the question stops being whether they can make beautiful images. It becomes whether people still notice when something was never real to begin with.