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> Hugging Face, as a prominent private AI company, benefits far more from the impression of AI power They aren’t just an “AI company”. They’re the primary entr
by janalsncm 2mo ago
> Hugging Face, as a prominent private AI company, benefits far more from the impression of AI power
They aren’t just an “AI company”. They’re the primary entry point of open weight models. If open weight models are seen as dangerous as a result of this incident, it will be bad for them. Similar to how it would be bad GitHub if open source was seen as dangerous.
- jackb4040 2mo agoCan you concretely lay out how you think that scenario would negatively impact HF? They're the de-facto central distribution point for all models; it seems overwhelmingly likely that increased censorship benefits them relative to any competitors. It's hard to imagine their internal culture is anything other than saturated with AI fanboys whose reaction to OpenAI hacking them was to point out how it reminded them of that scene from Terminator.
- janalsncm 2mo agoAn open weight model is used in a cyber attack. Responsibility is hard to attribute. The US/EU/any other government sees them as the distributor of the open weight model and comes after them. Passing a law making HF liable for any damage caused by a model they host.
- esseph 2mo ago> Passing a law making HF liable for any damage caused by a model they host. There's already legal precedent that prevents this. See the recent Comcast case for example.
- janalsncm 2mo agoFirst, American law is not world law. HF’s business can be made a lot harder if their international standing is damaged. Second, precedents can be overturned.