
The Opus 4 hype is ridiculous and based on made-up scenarios that you'd only see in bad movies. If you want to retrain a model, you retrain the model. You don't go and tell the model about it and you don't mention your extramarital affair at the same time. If the model 'threatens' you, you laugh and you pull the cord.
But of course Anthropic was built to make money out of effective altruism. They have a stake in making things look scary while pretending to fix them.