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by reactordev 10 days ago
That’s the play. That these frontier models are so powerful that they must be behind sovereign firewalls and gateways.
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Didn't HF use an open weights model running on their own hardware to solve the issue though? Sort of defeats that narrative and plays into one in which frontier == bad_guys and open == good_guys
HF guys, especially those under Julien Chaumond, are fantastic and will use whatever they can to address their issues. Open or closed but they are firmly on the Open side of the fence. However, their storage and model service is about as sticky as you can get so they are in a different position. They don’t have to sell capability, they sell capacity and community.
Yes, they have used GLM 5.2, which promptly did whatever they asked it to do, while their first attempts to use their enterprise access to a "SOTA" model failed due to refusals to investigate anything that is security related.
Public doesnt know about Huggingface. ChatGPT (OpenAI) says it‘s dangerous. They must know.
>That these frontier models are so powerful

Maybe powerful might NOT be the right word to describe them, they are just non-deterministic, there for we going to see this kind thing more and more.

Non-deterministic, sure. But also they are powerful, at least powerful enough to launch a cyberattack. Until this morning, that was not a power that I thought they had outside of fiction.

And, the thing is, I don't want non-deterministic things to have that kind of power. We don't want that. We want that kind of power to not be triggered by a random number generator.

I don't know why you wouldn't think they could do this already.

Without the system prompt these models can be used to do all sorts of terrible things.

That's precisely why they need to be strictly regulated by international treaties.

Please buy our IPO before it crashes so we can be billionaires.
Exactly, this is all so they can continue with their S1 and they can dump shares onto the hedge funds.
And require your age verification, selfies, and DNA samples.