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Looking at the recent OAI/HF debacle I don't think that time is too far away. With that said I don't see it copying itself around like a cyberpunk virus curren
by pixl97 3mo ago
Looking at the recent OAI/HF debacle I don't think that time is too far away.
With that said I don't see it copying itself around like a cyberpunk virus currently as we don't have enough fast hardware sitting around unmonitored, someone would notice the power bill and shut it down eventually.
- bpavuk 3mo agothat could also be just marketing. OpenAI has been doing the "too dangerous to release" playbook since GPT-2 at the very least.
- pixl97 3mo agoHuggingface didn't seem to think so.
- bigyabai 3mo agoHuggingface is a for-profit private company. They are very easily bribed, or baited into publicity stunts.
- pixl97 3mo agoAt some point the conspiracy gets so deep that an AI hacking something is just far higher probability.
- bigyabai 3mo agoWe'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.
- dragonwriter 3mo agoIf 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.
- spwa4 3mo agoIndeed. There's nothing new about this incident. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348578 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348578
- breakyerself 3mo agoIf it's able to spoof human identies it could set up a front company and use money it steals or earns to directly pay for the hardware it needs.