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Please please please understand that when you see media stories about stuff like this from AI companies, this is PR. They wrote this story and pitched it to media outlets. None of this is real. OpenAI does some version of this every six months or so. It didn’t happen. It’s fiction designed to attract attention and seed the idea that their technology is oh so powerful, so scary powerful that even they might not be able to contain it. This is meant to attract investors. That’s it.
I worked in technology PR for eleven years. That was before the AI bullshit, but it’s the same game. Believe me. There was a brainstorm meeting when they came up with this and someone wrote it on a whiteboard (or maybe these days it was a figjam). Actually, now that I think of it, they probably just had Claude write the pitch.
It. Didn’t. Happen.
Also, be aware that the media outlets reporting this slop also know it’s bullshit.
Do you think the OpenAI-HuggingFace hack was entirely made up, or just spun to make both companies look good despite the felonies?
Made up.
I’ll believe it when hugging face presses charges against OpenAI. Until then it’s just free advertising.
That is obviously not gonna happen even though the model hacked them. They would not poison their relationship with the biggest AI company over this. What would their goal with the lawsuit even be? It's just a really bad thing to lean on if you want to find the truth. I would instead suggest: "I'll believe it when OpenAI and HF get a lot of bad press written about them, talking about how insecure their systems are and how reckless OpenAI is when developing new models."
Oh, that's exactly what happened.
That was the weirdest part, the HuggingFace response made no sense. It was basically "no harm, no foul." And so convenient it only hacked another AI company.