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by bpavuk 2 days ago
that could also be just marketing. OpenAI has been doing the "too dangerous to release" playbook since GPT-2 at the very least.
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Huggingface didn't seem to think so.
If it is marketing, the misrepresentation is not that the attack occurred, it is that it was an accident, rather than an intentional consequence of setup and instructions that the attack occurred.

Huggingface has nothing to do with that either way.

Indeed. There's nothing new about this incident.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348578

Huggingface is a for-profit private company. They are very easily bribed, or baited into publicity stunts.
At some point the conspiracy gets so deep that an AI hacking something is just far higher probability.
We're not that deep yet. OpenAI has federal stakeholders, they're already playing dirty.

Why you would give Scam Altman the benefit of the doubt is beyond my understanding.