[IAmGraydon]

Of course that's what they did, which is why they will never share the prompt. They created a situation that they knew would end in a cybersecurity incident. Why is the whole world acting surprised that an LLM can hack when the safety is off and it's been instructed to do so?

[simonw]

> They created a situation that they knew would end in a cybersecurity incident.

That's a conspiracy theory.

[IAmGraydon]

Yes. It is. And your theory is that there was no conspiracy. What makes yours more likely than mine? You believe the people running these companies are innately good and just wouldn't do that? Are we supposed to assume that they're incapable of bad actions until proven otherwise? If so, why?

[simonw]

That's why I called it a "conspiracy theory". Sometimes those are true.

In this case I think it's extremely unlikely to be true, because it involved an (almost certainly illegal) attack against another company. That company talked about that attack, including warning their customers about it, five days before OpenAI confessed it was them.

So now either Hugging Face are in on the conspiracy, or OpenAI decided to break the law and antagonize a partner company just for the sake of a spicy blog post.