The Download: OpenAI’s predictable hack, and an AI stock sell-off
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This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we’ve been here before. —Will Douglas Heaven, senior AI editor Reading OpenAI’s account last week of how some of its models
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This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented.
But we’ve been here before. —Will Douglas Heaven, senior AI editor Reading OpenAI’s account last week of how some of its models broke their containment and hacked into the computer systems of Hugging Face, another AI company, was the first time I got genuine chills about what large language models are now able to do.
But this is a case of human hubris, not rogue AI. I am not an alarmist.
In fact, I have been pushing back against AI scare stories for years . Even so, this incident crossed a line.
I think it’s the clearest illustration yet of how the people building and testing this technology do not fully understand what they’re doing. Here’s why OpenAI could—and should—have seen this coming .
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